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FREEDMEN'S AFFAIRS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. 27

C.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, District of Kentucky:

Affiant, Alfred Ogden, late private company I, 108th United States infantry, on oath states that on or about the 25th of December, 1867, a colored man came to him and told him the paymaster was up at the Forst house to pay soldiers' bounties, and wanted him, affiant, to come up and get his pay ; that he went and found Colonel T. W. Campbell, who said to him that he was paying part of said bounty ; that it would be doubtful if affiant ever got the bounty ; that he, Campbell, had a way that probably he could get it; that he offered to pay affiant $140 ; that affiant, feeling it doubtful if he ever would get it, accepted the offer ; that affiant never by mark or otherwise signed any kind of a paper for said Campbell nor any one else in order to convey his claim to him; that he has never indorsed any draft nor signed any receipts concerning bounty since the above transaction with Campbell.

      his
ALFRED + OGDEN.
     mark.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of June, 1868.
WM. M. GRUBBS, U. W. Comissioner.

Witnesses:
ALFRED OGDEN, colored, affiant, lives at Russellville, Kentucky.
JOSEPH DUNCAN, colored, witness, lives at Russellville, Kentucky.
GEORGE OGDEN, colored, witness, lives at Russellville, Kentucky.
HENRY COATES, colored, witness, lives at Russellville, Kentucky.
HENRY LONG, colored, witness, lives at Russellville, Kentucky.
MARTIN LONG, colored, witness, lives at Russellville, Kentucky.

A true copy:

LEVI F. BURNETT,
Brevet Captain U. S. Army, A. A. A. G.

Official copy:

E. WHITTLESEY
Acting Assistant Adjutant General

D.

STATE OF KENTUCKY, County of Warren:

Before me this day personally appeared Thomas Trail, who being duly sworn deposes and says that during the late war he was a private soldier in company K, 108th regiment colored troops; that sometime about Christmas he was accosted by Eli Bleint, of Franklin, Kentucky, who desired to purchase his (deponent's) bounty, saying he was buying the same for Colonel Campbell, of Bowling Green; that he then offered him (deponent) $130 for his claim, which he (deponent) accepted, and the money was accordingly paid to him ; that said Bleint represented to him (deponent) that it was doubtful whether the claim would ever be paid, and that he (deponent) had better take the money offered him.

      his
THOMAS + TRAIL.
      mark.

Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 5th day of June, 1868.
JAMES McCLUNG,
Captain 45th Infantry, Brevet Major United Sates Army.

A true copy:

LEVI F. BURNETT,
Brevet Captain U. S. Army, A. A. A. G.

JOHN OLDS, witness.