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Slave Interview			 . Page 6
Rachel A. Austin		:	•
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slave to cook for food.. ~vhen their ow~r.s looked for them, “Bob Amos“ who raised “nigger hounds“ (hounds raised eolely to track Negro slavèB) was ei~mmoned arid. the dogs located them and surrounded them in their hide-bout; one went one way and one the other and escaped in the swampe~they would run until they caire to a fence— each kept some “graveyard duet and a few 1ight-~ wood. splinters“ with which they smoked their feet and jumped the fence and the dogs turned back and eould track no further. Thus, they stayed tu the woods until freedom, when they came out and worked for pay. Now, you know “Uncle Dick“ just died, a few years ago in Sparta, ~eorgia.~

	Then the Civil War came he remembers hearing one night “Sherman is coming.“ It was said that Wheeler‘s Cavalry of the Confederates was always “running and fighting.t‘ Lane had moved the family to Macon, Georgia, and they lived on a place called u Dunlap‘ s Hill • „ Tha~t night four preachers were pr eaching “Fellow soldiers, the enemy~is just here to Bolden‘s Brook, sixteen miles away and. you may be carried into judg ment; prepare to meet your God.“ While they were preaching, bombe began to fly because Wheeler‘s Cavalry was only six miles.away instead of 16 miles; women sQreamed. and. children ran. Wheeler kept wagons ahead of him so that when one was crippled the other would replace it. He says he imagines he hears the voice of Sherman now,. saying“Tell Wheeler to go on to Souti~ Carolina; we will ~OW it down with grape shot and plow jt