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ground. Then the colored and white both shot with revolvers; the white people rushed up to the tents and shot through the tents - then the whites ran; the colored people remained at their tents. Squire Hawkins and Mr. Gaunt and one of the white preachers came to me, and taking me out to one side, advised me to get my people together, compose them, and get them to move off of the ground about a mile, - for the white people had gone to prepare to vacate us and mob us. I advised the colored people to go and we moved off the ground. After this every thing was quiet until morning. On Friday morning, a party of white men came to the Camp ground, (I was within twenty yards at the time) and set fire to all the things that were in the tents, belonging to the colored people, and broke up the stone and earthen ware. 
On Thursday evening at the first fire from the whites - Andrew Adams, a colored man, was shot in the chest but not killed. Elias Hamilton, a colored man, was also shot at the same time in the right knee; another colored man was shot in the shoulder - I do not know his name.
I am a minister of the colored M. E. Church, belong to the Baltimore Conference and have been a licensed preacher two years. The colored people were invited to the camp by Mr. George Shipley. The Camp meeting was held on the ground of Mr. Enos Shipley, near Hanover Switch, State of Maryland.