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Jonesboro Washington County East Tennessee

Upon examination of William Wilds (colored man)- he makes the following statement. I know that a colored man named Griffin worked for Wm. G. Gammon while he was at Knoxville Tenn, and also after he came to Jonesboro. Gammon was very mean to him and treated him very bad all the time. Gammon had heard that Griffin was going to run off and go to the Federals, and he did make the attempt to do so- but Captain Edward Gammon a son of W. Gammon took several men and followed him to catch him, and the boy Griffin heard of their being after him, and came in- then he was told that Gammon was going to whip him unmercifully, and he was gone several days, and got his feet frosted or frozen prety bad.
I looked in at the windows of the basement story of the Court House, and saw Dr Williams and Dr Joseph Clark cut both of his feet off, and they laid him on the floor- they gave him brandy or whiskey all day before they cut off his feet- they bound up his feet left him on the floor till next day some of his friends laid him on a bunk or cot- it was freezing cold all the time. Wm. G. Gammon said he did not care if he did die.
After 8 or 10 days Gammon sent him to Minerva Dangerfield a very poor old colored woman in town, and said she should keep him- which she did for more than twelve months, for which she never got one cent

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Clinton B. Fisk
Brig Gen + Asst. Com

(sgd) William Wilds
Freedman of color