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Personally appeared before me the undersigned Lucy Hunt (col'd) and being duly sworn deposes as follows.

My name is Lucy Hunt- I live in the city of Memphis Tenn am the wife of Mercy Hunt. On the night- of the 4th of May 1866. A number of white men came to my house and asked if "any dam nigger soldier was there" I said no one but my husband they said he was a dam nigger soldier and wanted to know where he was I said "he had gone to the fort" they set fire to the things in the house and pushed me into it. I ran through the fire and some of them on the other side pushed me back and one said we will burn you up "god dam you" and put a gun to my neck. I escaped with my clothes badly scorched and burned-one of the party-was Mr Chris Pidgeon who lives near the R. Road opposite to the Mississippi and Tennessee depot- and keeps a grocery

Lucy her X mark Hunt

Subscribed and Sworn to before me this the 15th day of May 1866.

A true copy
F.W.H. Kendrick
Capt A.A.G.

(Signed) M. Walsh
Capt and A.A.A. Genl.
and Prov. Mar. Freedmen