~S1ave Stories District #5 ~~fldørb~‘gh County
	Lauafla Creel	A Slave, Ambassador and City Doctor.

merchants and salespeople remembered my ancestors.“

A story told by Dr. Buckner relates an evening at the beginning of the

~	Civil War. “I h~d heard my parents talk of the war but it did not seem

~	real to me untii one night whenmother c~e to the pallet where we slept

~	and called to us to “Get up and tell our uncles good-bye.“ Then four

~	startled little children arose~ Mother was standing in the room with a

~	candle or a sort of torch made from grease drippings and old pieces of

~	cloth,‘these rude candles were in conmion use and aîforded but poor light)

~	and there stood her four brothers, Jacob, Joim, Bill~and Isaac all with the light of adventure shin~ting upon their mulatto countenances. They were starting away to fight for their liberties and we were greatlj im.. pressed.“ . ‚
	Dr. Euckner stated that officials thought Jacob entirely too aged to enter the service as he had a few scattered white hairs but he reinembers he was brawny and unafraid. Isaac was too young but the other two uncles were accepted. One never returned because he was killed in battle but one fought throughout the war and was never wounded. He remembers how the white men were indignant because the negroes were a1l~wed to thnlist and how Mars Stanton Buckner was forced to hide out in the woods for many months becaus e he ~ had me t slave Frank Buckner and hae tried to kill him. Frank returned to Greensburg, forgave his mastei and procurred a paper stating that he was at fault, afteti which Stantonreturned to active service. EYes, the road has been long. Memory brings back those days and the love of my mother is still real to me, God bless herZ“

~	Relating to the value ofan education Dr. Buckner hopes every eaucassiari and Afro—American youth and maiden will strive to attain great heights, His first e9orts tb procure knowledge consisted of reciting ~ . A.B,8.3 from the McGufJ‘y‘s Blue backed speller with hiS wilettered sister toi‘ a teacher. IZL later years he attended a school conducted by the
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