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ed on the top of the large tobacc.o warehouse a large bell, which was rung at sun up, twelve o1clock and. at sundown, the year round. Cn the farm the slaves were assigned a task to do each da~r and in the event it was not finished they were severely whipped. While I never saw a slave whipped, I did see ti~ern afterwards, they were veri badly marked and striped by the overseers who did the whippin~.

	HI have been back to the farni on several occasions, the

first time in 1B72 when. I took ray father there to show him the Łarm0 At t:~at time it was owned by Colonel Hawkins, a Confederate Arm~j officer.

	“Let me describe the huts, these buildings were built of stone, each one about 20 feet v~ide, 50 feet long, 9 feet high in the rear, about 12 feet high in front, with a slanting roof of chestnut boards and with a sliding door, two windows between each door back and front about 2 x 4 feet, at each end a door and window similar to those on the side. There were ten such buildings, to each building there was another building 12 x 15 feet, this was where the cooking was done • At each end of each building there was • a fire place built and used Thr heating purposes. In front of each building there were barrels filled with water supplied by pipes from a large spring, situated about 300 yards on the side of a hill which was very rocky, where the stones were quarried to build the buildings on the farm. On the outside near each window and door there were iron rings firmly attached to the walls, through which an Iron rod was inserted and locked each end every night, making it impossible for those inside to escape.

	“There was one building used as a jail, built of stone about 20x40 feet with a hip roof about 25 feet high, 2-story, On