SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

Run nigger run, the Faddy Roll will get you
Run nigger run, it's almost day*
That nigger run, that nigger flew
That nigger tore his shirt into*
Run nigger run, the Paddy Roll will get you
Run nigger run, it's almost day*
Both Bart Turner and his brother Nat enlisted in the services of the
Confederacy* Nat Turner was a member of the First Arkansas Volunteers, a
regiment organized at Helena and of which Patrick R* Cleburne was colonel*
Dick Berry and Milt Wiseman, friends and neighbors of the Turners, also
volunteered and enlisted in Cleburae f s command* These three stalwart young
men from Phillips County followed Cleburne and fought under his battle flag
on those bloody fields at Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Ringgold gap, and Atlanta; and
they were with him that day in November in front of the old gin house at
Frankl in as the regiment formed for another and what was to be their last
charge* The dead lay in heaps in front of them and almost filled ihe ditch
around the breastworks, but the conmand though terribly cut to pieces was
forming as cooly as if on dress parade* Above them floated a peculiar flag,
a field of deep blue on which was a crescent moon and stars* It was Cle-
burne f s battle flag and well the enemy knew it; they had seen it so often
before* *I tip my hat to that flag" said the Federal General Sheno&n years
after the war* "Whenever my men saw it they knew it meant fight. w As the
regiment rushed on the Federal breastworks a gray clad figure on a chestnut
horse rode across the front of the moving column and toward the enemy's guns*
The horse went down within fifty yards of the breastworks• The rider arose,
waved his sword, and led his men on foot to the very ramparts* Then he
staggered and fell, pierced with a dozen balls* It was Cleburne, the peer-
less field-marshal of Confederate brigade commanders* The Southern cause
suffered a crushing defeat at Franklin and the casualty list recorded the names