SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

Interviewer Zillah Cross Peel
Information given by Seabe Tuttle
Residence Washington County, seven miles east of Fayetteville*
Seabe Tuttle w*>o was born in slavery in 1859 > belonged to James
Middleton Tuttle of Rich land, w^ic^ was about seven miles east of
Fayetteville*
*I was just a baby W^en the Tfar was but I do recollect a lot
of things t^at my ma told me about the War* Our folks all come from
Tennessee* My mother was named Esther, she belonged to Ole Man Tom
Smith who gived her to Miss Evaline, Who was Mister Mid Tuttle f s
wife* The Tuttles and Soiths lived joining farms**
*Tou see, Mister Tuttle was a colonel in the Confederate army
and ^en he went off with the army, he left all vis slaves and stock
in care of Mr* Iafe Boone* Miss Moliie and Miss Nannie, and Miss Jim
and another daughter I disrecolect ^er her name, all went in carriages
and wagons down south following the Confederate army* Tfeey took my
pa, Mark, and other servants, my motv>er*s sister, Americus and Barbary*
They told them they would bring them back home after the War* Then my
mother and me and the ot^er darkies, men and women and children, fol~
lowed them with the cattle and horses and food* But we didn f t get no
further than Dardanelle tfhen the Federals captured us and took us back
to the Federal garrison at Ft. Smith $ where they kept us six months*
Yes*m they were good t« us there* We would get our food at the com f sary#
But one day my ma and my sister, Handy, found a w*>ite man that said *e
would bring us back to Fayetteville* No f m, I disremember vis name* 1 *
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