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caught the stick from his hand, and then I was stabbed in the back of the head with a knife, by whom, I do not know, as there were several men running around behind me. After this I became very much excited, and did not care who struck me, or whether I lost my life or not. I did not strike Lewen Stewart at all. Before my going away with Lewis Jones, Dudley went to McCarty's son, (a boy who was sitting on a horse) and asked him to give him his knife, which the boy did. Some time after I was stabbed, I thought that Madison Morgan had done it. The Black men congregated by this time very fast, and were having a general fight with several whites, and the white men backed over the lawn towards the main house, and the colored people followed them there, and I dared Madison Morgan to come out of the house to fight me. Then William Veney shortly afterwards was taken out of the [[strikethrough]] house [[/strikethrough]] crowd of colored people, who had assembled between the porch in the rear of the house and its kitchen. He was carried to the porch, and he sit down there
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