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whilst there ravished her, one after the other. They then left and went to my father's sister's house, and robbed her of everything. One of them was going to ravish her daughter Elizabeth, but one of the other men told him not, and he desisted. They asked my aunt if she knew where Simon Woodhull was, she said yes. they then asked where he lived, she told them. they said that is what we want. we will burn the damned house up, and before many days we will be back and burn yours also. I think these men were the same men as came the first time. John Ashburn, living on the road from Springfield to Darvey, about 8 miles from Springfield told me that if I was a Union Soldier I had better leave for there was a colored man killed the other day for being a soldier. They shot him five times. - Lewis Griffin, living at Dan Holland's - about six miles from Springfield on the Franklin road told me that there was another colored soldier killed after tying him to a horse and running him for about nine miles. They loosed him - and shot him - and shot him. My father and sisters man Anderson know one of the men and can identify him

Signed,
Henry X Willis
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