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~	~ — — — ~ — Wien, I don‘t know hoi old I :ta. I waii bom in Virginia, but ~y

mother 118 eold. She iae bought by a apecu].ator and brought here to Arkansas. ~te brought me with her ezid her old master ‚ a name was RHgell. le lived down around Monticello. I wac big enough to plow and chop cotton and drive a yoke of oxen end han]. ten-foot xaile.

	‘Oh Lord, I don‘t know how men~ acres old master had. He had a territory .. he hatt a heap a land. I remember he had a big old carriage and the carriage man waa Little Alfred. The reason they called him that wa3 beoaus• there was another man on the place called Big £lfre~. They

t t no relation ~- just happen to be the e~e ne~.

	“r remember when the Yankese cone end killed old master‘s hoge and chickens and cooked ‘em. There was a good big bunch of Yankees. They said they was fightin‘ to free the niggera. After that I runned away and COEBS up here to Pine Bluff end stayed awhile and then I ~nt to Little Bock and jined the 57th colored infantry. I was the kittle drwiinr. We marched. right in the center of the army. We went frc~ Little Rock to Port ~ith. I never was in a big battis, just one little scrw~uage. I was at Fort &iith when they surrendered and I was ~ietered out at LeavenWorth, Kansas.

	“My grandfather went to war as body~iard for his mast•r, hat I was with the Yankees.