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	home. I d.ontt think he did. *Imtil it was nearly all over.

	Next thing we knowed they was Confederate soldiers riding by pretty nearly every day in big th‘oveB. Sometimes they wotiJÄ come and. Irny corn ami wheat and hogs ‚ but they never did. take any anyhow ‚ I Ike the Yankees done later on. They would pay with billets, Young Missy called them, and. she didntt send. them to git them cashed but saved them a long time, and then she got them cashed, but you ooul&n1 t buy anything with the money she got for them.

	~	That Oonf‘ed,erate money she got wasn~t no good. I was in Ai‘ce4ia with her at s~ store, and she had. to pay seventy—five cents for a can of sardines for me to eat with some bread I had, and before the War you could get a can like that for two cents. Things was even higher then than later on, but that‘s the only time I saw her buy anything.

	When the Yankee s go t down In that count ry the mo at of the big men paid.

for ai]. the co ru and. meat and. things they go t ‚ but so me of the li ttl e bunches of them w~uld ride up and. take hogs and. things like that and. just ride off.

They wa& t anybody at our place but the womenfoiks and. the negroes. Some of Mr, Sack! g women kinfo lice stayed. there wi th Toun~ Mi stress.

	Along at the last the negroes on our ~ place &tdII t put In much stuff jest WbiLt they would need, and could hide from the Yankees, because they would get it all took away from them if the Yankees found out they ha~i plenty oi~1corn and. oats.

	The Tai±ees was mighty nice about their manners, though. They camped. all around our place for a while. There ~ three camps of them close by at one time, but they never did come and. use any of our houses or cabins.

There ‘was lots of poor whites and. Cajuns timt lived. down below us, between

	us ami the Gulf, and. the Tankees just moved into their houBes and. cabins ami used them to camp in.