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Personally appeared before me this day, Jim Ogden (Col'd.) and having been duly sworn deposes as follows:

My name is Jim Ogden. I live in Gallatin Tenn.

About last December, I do not know the exact time, I was driving steers from the mill on Drake's Creek, on the Canny Fork, when I met Sidney Morris,

He asked where I was working and where I was going, I told him I was working for Doctor Johnson on the Scott'sville pike, near the Rock house.

He asked me if I had seen any of these damned Yankees about town. I said not, He wanted to get a hold of them, and the d- d- niggers who were soldiers. He said that he had a good notion to shoot me.

He then told me to go down there, meaning a short distance, and I would see the dead body of a d-d colored soldier. I then went over the field - and saw Bob and some other hands and told them what Sidney Morris said, They went across the field and found the dead body of