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was at home because he ~as too old to go to the war. pa was still in the war then, of course. Ma and I arid one of the other children and a ~ew darkies were at o~r home.
“We saw ~Îhee1er and. his men when they stopped at that gin. house.

They began to ransack immediately. Wheeler gave some orders to his men and ~al1oped o~f towards our house. The negroes ran but ma and I stayed in the house. Wheeler rode up in front oe the door and sooke to my mother. He sáiö. that he had to feed his men and horses and asked her where the corn was. She told him that the gin house and the crib which contained the corn did not belong to her, so she could not give him the keys. At that he ordered his men to remove a log from the crib. By this means they broke into the crib arid got all the corn. They then ransacked the house arid took everything there was to eat. They tore out the bi~ cog wheel in the gin and camped in it for the night. Next morning they set Lire to the gin and then galipped away. Soon Mr. Jeter‘s big gin had gone up in Lianies. They took all of our corn and all o:f the fodder, 200 bundles that we had in the barn, away with t hem.

Source:	Mr. John Boyd, County Home, Union, R.P.D. Interviewer ~ Caidwell Sims, Union,S. C. 1/26/38
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