The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-03

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lanes Wade. and she died right here in
this room where we are talking. l
never will forget the John Brown fight
at Harper's Ferry. Whensth caught
him and his men and took them to
Charleston to be hung there was great
excitement in those parts. There was
cplored man hung with them, and on
the day they were hung the masters all
through the country took their slaves
to see it. cause of the example and
to keep their colored people from run
ming away. My master loaded us up
in wagons and took us down to the
hanging. and Isneyer did see so many
colored people together before After
the hanging we were started back home
but my husband and my cousin nus
band were missing, and colored man
from another master. We never heard
OF them afterward. and we never knew
whether they ran away or we're sent
South and sold, were drowned or kill
Ell
when the war came on there was
awful times n Virginia and there was
such goings on after the battle OF Man
assas. There We're lots of sick AND
woundd Conteds IN the hospitals, ana
we were sent down there to help take
care of them, but we did not stay there
very long. but we're sent back to Wln-
chester Not 80 very long after that
the Co feds ard the Unions had hgnt
on the tiats at Winchester and the
hospitals were full Of tie wounded
from bo h sices. " e were IN the Con-
ted lines. anu we're sent out on the
+aid r. take water 10 the wounded
! ~ II coloraa women were sent al
.ba came t,r,e hut, no men. because
-bei, masters we've afraid that if they
sent them they would run away they
wasn't 50 much afra d of us, women,
because tbev knew we would not run
,u,av ana laavo onr children In my
1,a,ty we've four women belonging to
~, Smitb hnt We would NOT run away
bacausa n aster had fold us that if we
would wait ,,non the soldiers and carry
~ f.,r. ~ them and take care of thp
siclx when the war was over he would
49, and -vvo believed him stone
a ,,aIi, Isellson uas II that fight and ii
,saa 80 sea him often after in the hos
v,Jtals ). mt 10 aid NOT have the oppor-
unity ofta, ~ or - tbe hosnifals be-
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