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41.  

Felis Thomas, freedwoman, on Millandon plantation being duly sworn states the following:

"On monday the 26th of Oct 1868, about 9 oclock in the morning they came in here to this place, — the Spanish, about twenty of them, —

Three or four came in with shot guns hallooing. I ran from them when I saw them coming because I was afraid they were going to shoot me. Ran about a hundred yards, they were shooting at me, and hit me with a shot near my house. I was trying to get to my house. They shot me in the left leg below the knee. I fell down, they came up to me. I got up and walked into the house, — they came in behind me. Mr Alma Marshal, he shot me with a shot gun, was on his horse when he shot me. Vallvey Veillon was the head man with the twenty white men.

Alma Marshal and another white man came into my house — took my husbands gun and pistol, powder horn and flask, shot and caps. They then went for my brother William Boss. They searched his house, took his gun, powder and shot and a walking cane of his and his pistol. My brother tried to run away from them but the shot at him and shot a hole through his clothes, back of his coat. He had to run away to save his life. I know most of

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