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Personally appeared before me this fourteenth day of September, 1866, George W. Evans, 21 years of age by trade an Engeneer, residing on Patapsco Farm, property of Ross Winans, Baltimore County, Maryland, who being duly sworn, makes the following Statement:

I was present at the Camp Meeting held in Shipley's Woods, Anne Aroundel Co., on Thusrsday night, August 30th 1866; went there about 9 o'cl. a.m., and remained all the day, but saw nothing wrong; between sundown and dark was at the Colored Camp, with George Pocock and ladies, listening to them singing and praying About 9 o'cl P.M. went in to the circle of the white Camp and remained until the firing commenced, when I saw the crowd running and ran with them; heard people crying "the negroes are fighting the whites," dont know who the principals were; can't tell whether the attack was made by the colored or white people; saw there Oreger Harman, who had a club in his hand, when he came up from toward the colored camp; Charles Harman was also there; both live on the Annapolis Road; saw a young man in the pulpit firing, named Dorsey; he was dressed in [[strikethrough]] white [[/strikethrough]] light cloths; he fired in the direction of the