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	“On Christmas morning all the slaves would go up to the porch, get the ~2.5O, shoes and clothes, go back to the cabins and do what they wanted. I

	“On New Year‘s Day everybody was scared as that was the day that slaves were taken away or brought to the farm.

	“You have asked about stories, I will tell you one I know. It is true.

	“During the war one day some Union soldiers came to the farm lool& Ing for Rebels. There were a number of them in the woods near the landing; they had come across the river in boats. At night while the Union soldiers were at the landing, they we~re fired on by the Rebels. The Union soldiers went after them, killed ten, caught I think six and some were drowned in the river. Among the six was the overseer, and from that night people have ieard shooting and seen soldiers. One night many years after the Civil War, ~hule visiting afriend who now lives Within 500 feet from the landing where the fighting took place, there appeared some soldiers carrying a man out of the woods whom I recognized as being the overseer. He had been seen hundreds of times by other people. ‘~Vhite people will tell you the s~e thing. I will tell you for sure this is trug. .

	“You must excuse me I wanted to see some friend~, this evefling?~.