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said they would shoot her if she made any noise.

They then came to the house and assaulted Abram, kicking and stamping him very severely. They then stripped him naked, and carried him out about a hundred yards, where they whipped him, until they wore out three hickory switches upon him. During the scuffle in the house, Abram's son reached up for a gun, when one of the gang struck him with a sling shot and broke his arm.

Three of the four men are quite well ascertained to have been Jerry Gafford, a prominent citizen, John Leawright, and Herbert Thornton.

While they were whipping him they said the Yankees and niggers like him were trying to get the government away from them. Abram says that the only reason he can think of why they singled him out is that he induced some colored men to withdraw from The Conservative club that was formed in that beat.

On The Eleventh of July, Price Perdue, who is laboring the plantation of Jerry Gafford, reports that Jerry Gafford came to him and said the he had been informed that [[strikethrough]] price [[/strikethrough]] he (Price) had been telling around the place that he knew three of the men who committed the

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