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would not and sent me word to go to him and he would tell me

what he thought of me. I did not go to find out.
At another time I was away from home a day or two, and

when I returned, the first thing that I saw was the top of my

corn crib torn off. I knew what that meant. The Federal sol-

diers had been there in my absence and taken nearly all my corn.

stole husband's horse.

One time my husband sent his horse home with a very sore
back. I doctored him and fattened him. He was a fine riding

horse. One day I was sitting at a window and saw two soldiers
coming through the field. I went out the back hall door where
I could see the horse in the horse lot. I was afraid they would
take him. I stood there some time and did not see the Federals
pass. I stepped back to the hall door and there they stood in
the hall. They said: "What did you get up from the window
for? Your husband is home and you went out to tell him to

hide."

I replied: "He is not at home."
They said they know better, and that was what I went out
for. It made me so angry I said: "I don't tell lies, and if
you want to know what I went out for it was to see if you were
going to take my horse."
They went to the horse lot and looked in his mouth, and
when they came in again they said: "You need not hide that
horse tonight." I told him I was not going to hide him, but
I knew they were going to take him, so when I got up next
morning I went to look for him and he was gone. They did
not take him out through the gate, hut let the fence down at

the back of the lot.

GOT OXEN AND HORSE BACK.
The same paroled soldier that tried to get them to give
up the oxen, followed them ten miles next morning and pleaded
so hard they gave them up. Well, I sent for this young man

and we went to the next house about a mile from my house

where the wagon train had staid that night. There was a plan-
tation of corn there, that the owner had run off and left as soon
as the Federals took Little Rock. The ground was frozen and