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Den ~e Comfederate soldiers startec coming across ~Broad River. BeTh‘ dey got home, word had done got round dat our folks had surrendered; but dem Yankees never rit (fought ) us out ..-.. dey starved us out. If thinf~s had been equal us would a-been ±ightiri~ dem till ais day, dat us sho would. I can still see dem soldiers oi ours coming across Broad River, all dirty, filthy,~ and lousy. Dey was most starved, and so poor aria lanky. And deir hosses was in de same fix. lvien and hosses had ~uiovtï‘d plenty till dat Sherman come along, but most o~ dem never kriow‘d plenty no more, De men got over it better‘ dan de hosses. ~Tomen folks cared for de men. Dey brewed tea from sage leaves, sassafras root and other herb~teas-~ Nobody never had no money to tetch no medici~ from de towns ~id, so dey made liniments and salves from de things dat ‚grow‘d. around about in de woods and ~ardens.

	“I told you ‘bout how small I was, but my brotner, Jim Rice, went to Charleston and helped to make dem breastworks down dar. I has never see‘d dem, but dem dat has says dat dey is still standing in good conditions. Cose de Yankees tore up all dat dey could when dey got dar.

	“Lots of rail fences ~as made back in dem days. Folks had. a ‘no fence ‚ law ‚ dat meant dat everybody fenced in deir fields and let de stock run free. Hogs got wild and turkeys was already wild. Sometimes bulls had t~o be shot to keep dem from tearing up everything. But folks never fenced in no panture den. Dey put a rail fence all around ae fields, arid. in dem days de fields was never bigger dan ten or fifteen acres. Logs was plentiful, and some nig~-;ers, called ‘rail splitters‘, never done nothing else but split rails to mate fences.

	“If I recollects right, Wade Hampton brthke down fence laws in dis country. I sho heard him talk in Yorkville. Dey writ