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and stayed there until near twelve o' cl, and then, with the lady, went to the Altar of the white camp, and the next thing that I knew the whole crowd was running from the direction of the colored camp; then heard pistol shots and went in to the tent and stayed for the rest of the night; it had been reported that witness and George Evans were to be shot, and therefore witness kept in the tent; this information even communicated to witness by a boy named Charles Derr, living on Richard Shipley's place, who said that certain parties intended to drag witness out and kill him; the cause of this threat witness does not know, unless it be that they were Union Men; the week previously witness was told by Thomas M. Cole, of Anne Arundel County, who lives about three miles from Elkridge Landing, that if his witness, was as good a Revel as some of those down there he would have nothing to fear; never heard who burned the property of the colored people; thinks it was some Rebels who tried to break the camp up.

Signed, Robert M. Hood.

Witness
Max Dewey Colemann
A.S. Chambers