SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

"The war was funny and it wasn f t funny* Well, it was funny
for the side that won when we had scruiumishes (skirmish). I never
Y/as captured but I hoped capture a lot*
"I stayed in the war till I was mustered out in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. I was a good big fellow then. Oh Lord yes, I knowed
most anything.
"After that I went to Memphis and then I come to Arkansas and
went to farming with some white fellows named French. The river
ovex^flowed and we lost f bout all the cotton*
"The government gives me a pension now cause I was a soldier*
Yss f m it comes in right nice — it does that."
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