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army was comm1 up the road. The captain was on a hawse an‘ the men afoot an ‚ the dust from the dirt road a flyint . There was a moon shinin‘ ant you o o~1d see the muskets shinin‘ in the moonlight. I was settlnt on a fence an‘ when I seen ‘em it soared me so I started to run. When I jumped off I fell an‘ out a hole in my for‘ head right over this left eye. The scar‘s there yet. I run in the house and hid. Mr. Sammy Duvall had to get on a hawse an‘ go to New Liberty an‘ fetch a doctor to plug up the hole in ray head. I seen lots of soldiers after that an‘ I always run under the bed or hid in a closet or sc~ewheres. They stayed ‘round here for a long time. Finally provender got law and the soldiers tockto stealing. We called it stealin‘, but I reckon it warn‘t for they corne and got the stuff like meat out o‘ the sirioke house in broad open daylight. Mr. Duvall had a chestnut earl stallion he called Drennon an‘ they come, or somebody did, an‘ got him one night. One day, ‘bout t~ro or three weeks later, Will Duvall, a son o‘ Mr. Sainray Duvall, heard that the hawse was over in Henry C ounty where the s oldiers had a am. So he wen‘t over there and found the Captain an‘ told him he‘d come after old Drennon. The Captain said to describe him an‘ Will said, “Captain, ho‘s a chestnut earl named Drennon. If‘n I whisti“ a certain way he‘ nicker an‘ answer me.“

	~Well, they went down to the stable where they had a lot of stalls like, under tents. An‘ when they got there, Will, he whistled~, an‘ sure ‘nough, old Drennon nickered. So the Captain, he said, That‘s your hawse all right. Go in an‘ get him an‘ take him on home.

	Will brought the hawse home an‘ took him down in the woods on the creek where the water‘d washed all the dirt offen a big, flat rook and we kep him hid for three or four weeks • We didn‘t want to loose him ‚ again.

	‘When I was ‘bout six years old we moved offen the oreek~to a new road up
on the ridge • It was on the s arne farm but to another house • I had a great