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Statement of Wade Adams cold

on the morning of the 16 September 1865. John Adams White Edgefield District with out Cause or provication Came in to the field where I and the rest of the hands were at work and tied myself and three children Harry Lucinda and Celia. Striped our clothes off us and whiped us severaly at the same time saying that if I brought any paper to him from the damed Yankees. he would blow  my damed head off

Wade  his X mark  Adams
Sworn to and subscribed before me at Augusta Ga this 18”day of September A.D. 1865