u-Slave. Stories	~ ~
District No~.5	. ~	..	~2.
~r~riderburgh County S • .
lauafla Creel .	~ ~ E~ERIENCE.	t:


To ask Uncle George.
	Tu cannot say that they were hap*~y, as it brokeup a lot 0±‘ real friendShIPS ~ scattere~. many families. ~otber had. a great many pretty quilts t and~ a lOt of beading. Lfter the negroes were set free, Lars. ~.rnold toN us ~ ~ all go an~ make ourselves homes, so we started. eut, each of the grown I person~/ ‚oaded. with great buniles o~ beCi~ding, clothing and personal belongrigs. 7e walkel all the way to ~7artraee to try to fiń~ a borne ana. some way to make a living.‘~ . . Î;

	G~eor~e Ti: Ârnoli remembers sec in~ many soldiec~ going to the pike roaa. n their way to Murfrees‘ooro. ~‘Long lines. o~ tirei men passed. through G~uy~s

•c~ap on t:~eir wa~~ to Murfreesboro.“ saie he, ‘TONer people saiOE that they were sent out to pick up the dead from the battle fields a‘ter the bloody battle of Stone‘s river that had lately been fought at L~urfreesboro. They

~	t:~eir oomrad~ to bury them at the Union Cemetery near the town of Mur~
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~ree~boro.“

TT‘~7artrace was.a very n~ee place to make~our home. It was located. on r

ITashviile and Chattanooga and St. ~1oui~ railroad~, just ~ifty~xie miles Nashville not many miIe~3 from our oui horne,‘~ tTL~other found work and

got alc~g very well but as soon as we childien were old enough to work,, went back to her ol~ home in georGia where a few years later she~died~. bEJ~ieve she lived. to be seventy-five or seventy six years o~ age, but I

~3ver saw her after she. went back to Georgia. „ . ~ItMy first work was done on a ~arrn (there are many:~ine farms in Texmess~e)

~	although farm 1a~i~ was not very profitable ~e were a1~ays rod. therever
	~ .	- I got some yage~.	Then I got a job on the railroad.. ~ ‘~Oi~.oar. ~

•~v ~ ~ place called. Silver Springs.“ ~8~.td Uncle Georr
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