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Returned to Natchez in May last.

Mrs. Martin remained at home till in July 1863 when the Federal forces occupied Natchez and she was driven from her house by the violence & insults of officers, soldiers, & negros. There was no white males on the place except her infant son. Her family consisted of 5 small children the eldest eight years of age. She moved her family and most of her furniture to her mother’s near by. About the 1st of March 1864 a Capt Walker Provost Marshal with one Wallace Thew[[?]] said to be Colonel of an Illinois Regiment came and under an order from Col Johnson commanding the Post carried away part of her furniture. Soon afterward all her furniture was taken except that in the room she occupied & a few articles left behind. The order directed the taking of the Furniture of the rebel Genl Martin” The object of the Taking was Said to be to furnish rooms for officers & their families The officers taking the furniture were informed that it was Mrs. Martins & not her husbands and so Col Johnson was informed by Mrs. Conner but she was Bodily repulsed in an attempt to protect her daughters property. The bed room furniture of Mrs. Martins rooms was demanded but was saved by the interference of Dr Wood, Mrs. Martins uncle-It is submitted that parlor furniture was not required by military necessity for the officers of Cavalry Regiments.

In moving to the adjoining place (her mothers) Mrs. Martin kept a tenant in her