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Madam. I stopped and he came up to me and commenced whipping me and threw me down and stamped on my Head. I got away from him, he caught me again and beat me. I broke from him and run and hid under the corn crib. He found me and threw a spade at me, and, as I did not come out, he set the dogs on me to drive me out. I drive them off, then he got a rail and punched me out. I ran to a Freedman By the name of Burrill Whiteside. Burrill asked him (Whiteside) [[strikethrough]] asked him [[/strikethrough]] to stop abusing me, but, he kept beating me and tried to shove me under a wagon [[strikethrough]] under [[/strikethrough]] which Burrill was driving. Saying he did not care if he killed me. I caught hold of the whip while he was doing this. He then drew his knife and cut me on the [[underlined]] Bridge [[/underlined]] of the nose inficting a gash one half (1/2) an inch long. I started that same day and reported to Lieut Du Bois Agent of Freedmen's Bureau ^[[insertion]] Okolona Miss [[/insertion]] who gave me ^[[insertion]] a note [[/insertion]] to the Justice of the Peace in Itawomba County asking him to give the case a hearing I took the note to James Williams a Justice of the Peace living in his ^[[Whiteside's]] beat, who told me to call in [[strikethrough]] me [[/strikethrough]] two or three days and he could tell me what he could do for me. I went away and in a few days I called on him, (Williams) and he told me that he could not do anything for me untill the laws were opened. I then went to Sally Whiteside, Thomas Whiteside's Mother while she was lying on the bed asleep Thomas Whiteside came and called me and asked me if I was going to the House to get my children. I told him I was. He replied. He had heard that I was sort of Dubious about going there 

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He then asked me if I had any place picked out to take my children to and if I had he would take the wagon and take them there. I said I had and was going to take them to John Payne's to stay until after Christmas. He said he would ^[[not]] take them there, and asked me to tell him where I would meet him on the road. I told him [[strikethrough]] I had [[/strikethrough]] I had no place to meet him on the road. He then asked me to meet him at the Mill Pond with my children: Late Sunday evening Decr 3d 1865 I told him I would, [[underlined]] then [[/underlined]] he left. Seth Whiteside a Freedman [[underlined]] who [[/underlined]] had heard the conversation told me not to meet him there (meaning at the Mill Pond) as he wished to drown me, and Burrill Whiteside and Rachel Williams (Freed.) told me that they had threatened to [[underlined]] kill [[/underlined]] me on first sight Because I had gone and reported them to the Yankees & Thomas Whiteside had said if any [[underlined]] one [[/underlined]] of his Niggers reported him to the Yankees he would kill them, so I did not dare to go to the mill pond But came direct to Okolona

Violet her X mark Whiteside

Witnesses } Willie. Rob Whiteside (a white boy)
Burrill Whiteside Freedman
Pleasant Whiteside do [[ditto for Freedman]]
Mary Whiteside Freedwoman
[[underlined]] Rachel Williams [[/underlined]]

Sworn and Subscribed to before me this fifth day of December in the year of our Lord 1865

[[signature]] W. F DuBois [[/signature]] 1st Lt & Sub Com.
Freedmans Bureau Post of Okolona Miss.

Transcription Notes:
changed "his" to "hid" in 3rd full sentence (compare how writer makes final, lowercase "d" in words like "commenced" and "stamped") ("Itawomba" a misspelling of "Itawamba" Co.)