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Lt. Shelton Diary, 1864
1864-08-14 Page 02
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was as good as I ever saw after passing through the cornfield we went to the next house and took the old man by surprise - but we had not sufficient proff that he helped to kill the darkies although it could be proved that he helped tie them. a negroes testimony being good before a military tribunal. We found in the granary a double barld shot gun which the old man swore he did not know was there. -The major gave it to a darky who was going in with us. the next place we came to, the negro men saw us coming and made
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was as good as I ever saw after passing through the cornfield we went to the next house and took the old man by surprise - but we had not sufficient proff that he helped to kill the darkies although it could be proved that he helped tie them. a negroes testimony being good before a military tribunal. We found in the granary a double barld shot gun which the old man swore he did not know was there. -The major gave it to a darky who was going in with us. the next place we came to, the negro men saw us coming and made
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