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	Oklahoma Wri	‘ Proj ect
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Indian sold.iersçatch up, but they was fought back.

	Then long before morning lighten the sky~ the men hurry and. sling the camp kettles across the pack horses,tie the littlest children to the horses backs and~ get on the move farther into the mo~mta1ns. They kept moving fast as they could, but the wagons made i. t mighty slow inthe brush and. the lowland swam~ ~ ‚ just about the time they ready to ford. another creek the Indian soldiers catch up and the fighting begin aJ~1 over again.

	The Creek Indians ax4 the slaves with them try to fight off the~.ui soldiers like they CUd. before, but they get scattered around and seyarated sots they lose the battle. Lost their horses and wagons, and the soldiers killed lots of the Creeks and Negroes, and some of the slaves was captured and took back to their masters.

	Dead all over the hills when we get away; some of the ~egroes shot and wound~ ed so bad. the blood nui down the saddle skirts, and some fall off their horses miles from the battle ground, and lay still on the around. Daddy and Uncle » Jacob keep our family together somehow and head. acro ss the line tnto kansas. ~e all get to Fort Scott where there was a big army camp; daddy work in the blacksmith shop and~ Uncle Jacdb join with the Northern soldier‘s to fiait against the South. He come through the war and. live ~ to t eU me about the fighting he been in.

	He went with the sold.iers down arouth Fort 0-ibson where they fight the Indians who st~réd with the South. Uncle Jacob say he killed many aman durIng

the war, aM shoIec3. nie the imisket and sword he used. to fight with; said. he dI‘dn~t shoo t the womên and. children‘ — ~. — jus t whack thel r heads off wi th the sword, and almost could. I see the blood ~ dripping from the points I t Énäd~ nié scarè& at his stories. ~ ~ ~ ~.
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