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Personally appeared before me this 28th day of Jany 1867. William White, and having been duly sworn deposes and says. 

My name is William White. I live at Mr Larry [[Verirt?]] about a mile from Cairo and in Wilson Co. I wrote to Genl Thomas last November 1866. to get my children who are held by John White living at the Gap in the ridge about five miles from Lafayette near Fort Blunt. I asked him for my wife and six children - He refused to give them up. My wife wanted to come from there - Union white folks told me that the rebels said they would kill me if I did not leave - or I ever came back for my wife or family they would kill me. Miss Anne L.D. White living about 14 miles this side of LaFayette, said she heard them say so. They said that the reason they had for killing me was because I would not go with his son into the Southern Army - I left Whites place then and joined as a private Soldier in the 14th United States Colored troops and served with that Regiment nearly three years and until the regiment was mustered out of service at Nashville last year. This was the reason my being a United 

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I don't think the surname "Verirt" is correct.