The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-28

ton. Il kean't jus tell how ole I am. but
dat town clerk done figured me out at
ll5 He told me ] was ole enough 10 vote.
and the old lady laughed heartily at her
own Wit.
How far back can you remember she
was asked
DE furtherest back I ken remember IS
the Resolution airy Wah. / was den a lit
tie tot, but ] remember heahing the guns
nahing neah Baltimo'. and the soiers
bringing a kernal dat was done snJl
thrO the bowels into daddy's cabin and
NANNY nu's sing him till he died. My
massa was Kernal Desplane den. but le
died soon an my young missus marry
one OF dem dar Irishmen dat was in de
Wah. He done run through all thu poo
chiie's property, and in de breakup nam
my and me and Sophy was sold on de
ncEsee'
did you ever see Gen. WASHINGTON
4 done see Gen1 Washington when
massa let nanny an us chiren go down
70 AleXandry 10 see grandaddy. Geni
Was hington was sitting in a big red rock
IN cheer IN de porch He had rufhes an
up and down his short front, and silk
stockings and hair-powerful white hair"
How old were you them"
Law me, boss, / keant tell you. /
was consid able of a girl, for befO gwinc
70 see grandaddy / done made a shirt for
MIN 1 s'pose 1 was Is yeahs old den, or
Did you ever see Thomas Jenerson2'
doan know nOthin' about him, san.
An de generals knowed was Genl Wash
lngton and Genl Jackson
when did you see Gen. Jackson
De nrst time / saw General Jackson
vas when he KEN back from de wah al
Newerleans. My massa was den Kernal
Ridley, and he done ut wifi de general in
de Wah. What was he? 1 clara ! done
forgit what ne was. He gave de sojers dc
bread an things"
''Quartermaster?"
Dat was 1t. Well, when dey come back
from de wah dere was a big dinnah at
Nashville, an everybody from all the ken
try 'rOun as fab as MurfeesborO was dar,
n1ggers an everybody. EsV rything was free
an clean white caliker cloth kivered de
tables. Kernal Ridley lowed all us niggers
TO go an we had a gran time. General
Jackson was at de top of de table, and
ne made a big speech, L tell YOU. He done
tole how de Tennessee boys done licked
de red coats. an everybody, niggers, too,
cheered him"
Aunt Harriet IS well versed in the affairs
OF the war of y, for she was Col. Rid
ley's housekeeper and heard him telling
his wife all about it. She described what
he said about the suffering of the soldiers
from hunger. and how they ate fat dogs.
i was dremly skeered, she said, when
de kernal said he was afeared they would
eat people, for I was big an fat an i had
two chilluns that was fat as butter.
"Genl Jackson she continued, was
tall an straight an hardy. an would
fight the black devil hisself. He would fight
duel at de drop of de hat an he warnt
a bit feared of witches. He was comm
home from lection one night, an a big
ghost tackled him in de middle of de
road. He drew his pistols an when de
ghost done saw dat he turned hisself into
a pigeon an flew away as fast as dose
wings would carry him.
Strange TO say, she knows but little
about Abraham Lincoln She knows that
he had something to do with freeing her,
but it is doubtful If she considers freedom
a blessing. She has been widow forty
years. her husband having died of cholera
at Nashville.