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strode into our yard and we were soared at first, but they told us they were friends, and one of them spied the ham~s and asked if they bélonged to the big bouse. When told. that they were ours, they said they were hungry, and mother fixed them a dinner of hain and eggs and plenty of other things . They thanked us and left, doing no harm.

	“Before they left, I noticed a crowd of soldiers at the Brevort home. I ran there, and told the troops, please, to do no daznage to the premises, as the ndstress ‚ then in at, was the best friend xi~r mother and I had ever had. They left soon afterward, showing no aninais toward

the Brevort family and taking nothing away.
	ttWê never received any aid from the Freedmen‘s bureau, for we did

not need it. After~I finished the public sohool work at Canvien and help‘ed n~r father in his store for a time, I enteredthe University of South Carolina, iii October, 1874 and stayed there until 1877. You know there was a change in government in 1876, and Negroes were excluded from the university in 1877. I was in ~j junior years wher.~ I left.

	“I returned to Camden and taught~ school in Kershaw County for ten years. During that time I~ opened school in the Browning lerne,. which .~ still stand8 in Camden. In the meantime, I had been an interested men~ber of the ~thodist Episcopal Church since z~j early years, and I was made an elder in that denomination in 1888, and sent t6 Columbia as pastor of the Wesley Methodist Church.

	‘~When I came here as pastor, th8.t church stood on the corner of Sumter and Gervais itreets, on the site where the United States poatoffice

now stands. The congregation sold that corner in 1910 and built the brick church at Barnvell and Gervais streets. I was the pastor all that time,