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Statement of Wade Adams Cold

On the morning of the 11", September 1865- John Adams White Edgefield District. With out cause or provocation came in to the field where I and the rest of the hands were at work and tied myself & three children Harry, Lucinda and Celia striped our clothes of us and whiped us severaly at the same times 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