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One of the white men said no "let's wait till they come back"- then Howard said "its a good time now while they are asleep" I was close to them hiding in the Rose Bushes- they passed me by

the next day I met George Howard in the street, and he met a white man and George said "You are thinning them out are you" and the man said "Yes God dam them" the man before me is George Howard {here the undersigned indicated with her hand the man George Howard}

Matilda Howley
her X mark

Subscribed and Sworn to before me at Memphis Tenn this the 19" day of May 1866

(Signed) Mich'l Walsh
Capt & A A A G
& PM Freedmen

A true copy
F.MH. Kendrick
Capt & AI Genl