£x..slave Stiries	Page Tw.
(Texas)







	fil was with }4issus Mag on a visit to Mansfield when de war starts at s ix s‘ cl ôclc Sunday and go till s ix e‘ click ~4.nday. I went over dat bat tle~~ field and 1 ook at dem soi ers dey kill. David UcGI1I ‚ a young massa, he git kill. He uncle, William Weeks, what done hired him to j me the army in he place, he gees to the battlefield to look for Ma3sa David. De •nly w~r he knowed it was him, he have two geld eyeteeth with diamonds in dem. Some dem hurt soj ers was pre.yin‘ and some cussin‘. Yeti could hear some dem hollerin‘, ‘Oh1 Gawd, help nie.‘ Dey was layln‘ ~‚ think ~r,u have to step ever dein.

	“I seed de e.jers in Iberia. Dey take anythin‘ dey wants. Dey cotch de cow and kill it and eat it. Dey ha+e de camp dore and dey jus‘ carry

on.	I used t, go to de camp, ‘cause dey give me crackers and sardines. B%it after dat Mansfield battle dey have up white flags and dey ain‘t no more war dore. Bttt while It gwine •n, I go te de c~p and sometimes dem sojers give me meat and barbecue. Dey one place dore i~ lump salt big as dis hiuse, and dey s 3t fi re t o de house and left dat b 1g lump salt . Anywhere dey caznp dey burns up de heise.

	$1 didn‘t know I‘m free till a man say to me, ‘Sissy, ain‘t you know you aIfl~t got no more ~a88a or missus? ‚ I say, ‘No, euh. ‚ Bat I stays with dem till I git marry ‚ ~nd op‘ right in dey hot~se aM nuss fer lent. Dey give a• de bi~ ‘ ‚ tee. De noter pubi Ic In Iberia, he marry us. My husband name Eenr~ Smith and dat when l‘a fifteen year eid. I so big-~limb and fat den I bigger dan what I is now.

	t,! ain‘t had n, husband for a time. I can‘t cast de years, he been

dead. s• long. tie have fifteen chillen, and seven livlnt ~