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“An‘ white folks run to de WOOdB an‘ hid out caze dey ~ ~ : seen hit was Calv‘ry ‘bout a mile long comin‘ down de road.

	Sojer rid right up to me au stuck his bay‘net at ~ an‘ eaye, ~‚ ‘Boy, wh~r de tat.er. house? ‚ An ‚ I eho • did show him whar ‘twas.

Dem eajera &ho‘ was starved. Dey take thirty tater purika, fif. teen er twenty chickens, and five hams. Den dey went ~.n de smoke house an‘ grabbed off five er ten poun‘e er sausage, middlin‘s, and aides. T),y take ‘nough grub to load three wagons an‘take hit over to New Zion Church ‘bout er mile trum us. An‘ right thar dey camped that night.

~Th&t was afte‘ de Siege er Vickaburg. ~rse Jim didn‘

keer, but he sont u. ober nex‘ monin‘ to git de leavin‘., an‘ thar was a wagon load er jas de leavin‘..

//~	•1 ‘members when us was sot free aliright. ‘Tisa in de ~ middle of de winter y‘ kn~, an‘ Marss Jim was so mad ‘bout hit

t;~ he went off down to a li‘l stream er water s.n broke de ice an‘

\	jumped in, an‘ bodied bout two veeke afte of de pewmonia. (1) L—~ ~i was glad to git in‘ freedom ‘cause I got out‘n frum

under dem whuppine.

*Aft,, dat ue bought lan‘ trum de Wileone whut was let‘

an‘ I been a fa‘min‘ thai‘ ever since.*
(1)	pneumonia