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D1LI2C YELT4AD~~
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	E~Yes sir, I ‘niernbers ‘bout whet my mamn~r toJ.e in~e ‘bout ~AJ~raham Lincoln, Grant, ant a lot of dein. Yankees conthi‘ down ere ‘fore de surrender. Frurn what dey tole nie Sherman knowed de south like a book tfore he come thro‘ last time. Dat he did. Yankees come thro‘ dressed like tramps an‘ dey wus always lookin‘ fur sonie of dere peoplé. Bat W!U6 dere scuse . Dey wus at b~g shindigs de southern white folks had ‘fore de war.

“Man:imy an‘ dad dey said de niggers would git‘ in

de slave quarters at night an‘ pray ~ fer fre e:dom an ‚ lai‘ Lbout what de Yankees wus dom‘ ‘bout Lincoln an‘ Grant

foolin‘ deir marsters so.

	UOle Jeff Davis said he. wu~ g~ftt to fight de

Yankees till hell wus so full of ~ em dat dere legs wus hangin.‘ over de sides, but when dey got ‘lin in a close place he dres in ‘ornans clothes an‘ tried to git away fruilL ‘em but dey seed his boots when h~ started to git ill dat thing dey rode in den, a carriage. Yes data what. it ~us a carriage . Dey seed his boots an ‚ knowe.d who it ~rus. Dey jus. 1a±Ted an‘ pointed aV ~ ~ said you hoi‘