Slavery Reminiscences	. Pace 2

We went together for six years. The Confederate War commenced. He was very handsome. He had. black eyes and black hair. I had seven curls on one side of my head and seven on the other. He was twenty~four when he joined the ?~Boys of Sixteen1.

	“11e wanted to marry me then, but fàther would not let us

marry. He kissed me good bye and went o~ to Virginia. He was

a picket and was killed. while on duty at M&rs Hill. Bill Harris

was in a tent near-by and heard the shot. ±Le brought Ben home.

Ï went to the funeral. I have never been much in~love since then.

	“I hardly ever Îeel sad. I did not reel especially sad during the war. I made socks, gloves and sweaters for the Con.±ederate soldierB and aleo knitted i~or the Norld ~Var soldiers. During the war, there were three looms and three shuttles in our house.

	“I went often to the muster grounds at Kelton to see the soldiers drill and to flirt my curls at them. Pa always went with me to the muster field. Onóe he invited four recruits to dine with us. We had a delicious supper. That was before the Confederacy was paralyzed. Two darkies waited on our table that night, Dorcas and Charlotte. A fire burned in our big f ire~ place arid a lamp hung over the table. After supper was over, we all sat around the fire in its flickering lieht.

	ttMy next lover was Jess Holt and he was drowned in the

Mississippi River. He was a carpenter and was building a warf on the river. He fell in and ‘was drowned in a whirlpool.

Source:	Miss Caroline Bevis (W. 96), County Home, Union, S.C.
Interviewer: Caidwell Sims, Union, S.C. (7/13/3?)