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there during the whole time.

On Thursday, August the 30, 1866, about 11 1/2 o cl. P.M., William Downs, Sgr., came to my tent and requested me to go down with him where the colored people were, and where seemed to be a quiet confusion between white and Colored; the whites were within the limits of the colored Camp Ground; one of them said that he had been struck by a colored man; witness did not see, whether and when it was done.

I then went among the colored people, telling them to stop the fighting and go on with their meeting; I then stepped back among the whites again, still on the Camp Ground of the colored people; I saw something look like a large Apple or a small cantelope, dropping among the colored people; it came in my opinion from the whites; The colored people then started to come towards us, after which all the whites run; I heard the reports of pistols, but did not see or recognized any person.

Witness saw Phillip Newbern at the place where the fire was built in order to destroy the property of the colored people, but did not see him doing anything; The colored people received from authority the privilege of holding a Camp Meeting on that Ground.

I saw Henry Shipley throwing an empty barrel