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	“Our clothes v~iz made from cotton. and linsey. Cotton wuz used in the

su:mer arid linsey fer the winter. Soiaetimes our clothes wuz yeller checked and most time red, Our stockings wuz made ~f coarse yarn fer winter to wear with coarse shoes. We had high topped shoes fer Sunday.
	~	“I?	seed ten thousand of the U~o~ Soldiers and a great many of the


rebel soldiers. The Re~e1 soldiers would take everything they could get their hands on hut I never did know of the ~ Soldier taking anything. Th rebel s have stole my masters cows and horses and we would have to hide the meat in a box and bury it in the ground.“

•BOYD CO. (Carl F. Hail)

	The Cominonw-ealth of Kentucky, having for a northern boundary the Ohio River..~the dividing line between the northern free states and the southern slave states has always been regarded as a southern state. As in the other states of the old south, slavery was an institution until the Thirteenth A~ninendment to the Co~stit~tio~ of the United States gave the negro freedom in 1865.

	Kentucky did not ‚ as other s outhern state ‚ s ecede from the Uni on, but attempted to be neutral during the Civil War. Th~ people, however, were divided in their allegience, furnishing recruits for both the Federal and C onfederate arniie s . The pre s ident of the Union, ~ Abraham Li~oo1~, and the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, both were born In this state.

	Boyd County was formed in 1860 from parte of Lawrence, Greenup and Carter Counties, and we are ur]able to find any records, in Boyd County, as to slave holden and the ir s lave s ‚ though it L s known that many ~ell to do faITL±liéà the Catlétte, Dè~vis, Poages, Williams az~d Öthers were sÏai~e holde~~
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