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reached de North. When u~ ~ot to Charleston, us turn‘t aroundand de bosses fetched U8 right back to Union through Columbia. Us heard dat
	Sherman vvas com1n~, fetching fire a1on~ ‘hind hirn.	~ .	.	~ E.

	ttDon‘t krio~v nothing ‘bout rio militia to make no statement, but it went on and turn?t back. another regiment had a barbecue somewhars in Union County beTh‘ it went off to war; might a been de 18th re~irnent, ‘but I does not Leel dat I can state on dat. ‚
	“My soul reaches from God‘s footstool up to his heavenly	‚ ‚
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home. I can histronize de poor white roiks‘ wives and. chilluns en— ~ during de tune 0± de Civil War fer you. When dese poor white men went to de war, dey lest deir little chullun arid deir wives in de. • hands of de darkies dat “was kind and de rich wives o~ our marsters to care Ler. Us took de best care o~ dein poor white dat U8 could under de circumstances dat prevailed.

	“We was sont to Sullivan‘s Island, but befo‘ we reached

it, de Yankees done got it arid we ~on?t ‘lowed to cross in ‘64. But .‚ jes‘ de same, we was in service till dey give Capt. Pranklin Bailey ‘mission to i~etch us home. Dar we hag. to ~it ‘mission ffer everything, jes‘ as us nig~ers had to git ‘mission to leave our marsterts place at home in Union County. Capt. Bailey come on back to Oross Keys

wid us under hi$ protection, aria we was under it fer de longest t une at t er W e ‚d o ne ~ ot h orne .

	~Per 66 years Ibeen licensed as apreacher, and fer longer ‘dan dat I been a mémber o±~ Padgett‘s Creek Baptist church. Mo‘ work I does, mo‘ work I has to do. You know b~ow to pray. Well, you does.

not know how to make polish o~t off piriders~ . . ‚ ‚	L ‚ ‚ . . ‚ ‘t..I ain‘t .ed~ičated yet, but even Lise what teaches school H•...

ou~t to de keys (de bi~ bJ~ack school), dat bi~ b~Lack buck dat teache~
	-	‚~‚	ç	c~oulc~.n‘t do dis b~ere ox~e.