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on returning (it being night) he stopped again (One of the prisoners) A negro foreman on Jenkins place give notice to Jenkins that "Alfred" was there Jenkins being sick called some rebel Missouri soldiers who were stopping with him to go with Jacob and drive Alfred off the place. Two of them, Cook & King went, Cook taking a Double Barrel Shot Gun (loading it with Buck shot) & King taking a revolver. They found Alfred in one of Quarters ordered him out and told him to run. he started Cook fired wounding him. Alfred then tried to get over the fence when Cook fired the other barrel of his gun. "Alfred" then fell mortally wounded. The negros were ordered to let him lie there, which order was obeyed and no attention was given to him that night or the next day (until he died about 12 o'clock) was then until the negro Jacob told Mr Jenkins that the hogs were mutilating his remains. Jenkins then ordered the negroes to dig a pit in the woods and put him in