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horses, guns, chi1d~ etc. De soldiers let hirn keep hi~ gun ‘cause dey said it wou1d~ntt kill a flea. But dey cut de buttons off de coat, and took de SjT~UTS off of 1118 heels and said he could not ~o any I~urther. Dey took me ~iiad de baby and ruade us sit on de grounŚ.~ Desoldiers tooiCHigdon to de river. It was late in de day. Dey said dey was going to transfer him back to I~1SSQUri arid sell de horses. Hi~don had papers fi~ni Col. Lowe and Cham~ bers. De soldiers ~rere masons and after a while dey all come back just a iaui~hing and shaking hands .

‘tw~ wei‘e put on a boatat Little Rock.~oing toward St. Louis. De

child took de small pox from a lady on de boat. When we got on de boat dey ~ :

were firing at the wheels of de boat from across de river. ~ I was feeding de

baby and de chaniber.-maid corne out and said ‚ ‚ I would drovm him‘ . I sai d ‚

‘If you do dat you will have to drown nie too‘ . Dey had Higd3n locked up

on de boat and he did not get to see de baby for two weeks when we got to

St. Louis. ~Tust as we got to St. Louis, two ~thite ladies saw de baby who > ‚

	was so sick and dey went out and got some clothes for it. De doctor come on ~

	de boat and vaccinated me. De sores on.the baby were as big as half dollars. ~ “Den after we got to St. Louis we went to Whitworth‘s in Ironton, Mis.- ~

souri. :Eligdon was on de back porch and a soldier shot at hirn and took him	~‚

to headquarters dat night. I~hitworth had some soldiers take us to Sabula,	~‚ ‘t

	twenty-five miles away. De soldiers den took Hi~don back to Iz~onton until ‚ ~ ~ ~‚
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