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Testimony of Wm H Smith
Corinth, Jan.26, 1863 William M.Smith appeared before me and on his oath says that the rebels was
hunting men down with dogs and also two women had been torn up by the dogs. On
his way to Corinth, he heard that a man named Kennedy, who had two sons in the
Union army was taken and hanged by Roddey's men-charged with having visiting his
sons. They gave a negro a plug of tobacco to bury the corps. Jan.18th.at
the residence of a mr. Starkey while there he was surprised by rebel Calvary;
Starkey ran and was fired on 4 times and escaped; Calvary went on to the home of
Mr. Steadier a union man and rode him on a rail and gave him a choice to remain
silent to the union question or be hung.-he chose the latter course. Eight
hundred cavalry went to Randolph County to hang Lim Smith assigning as a reason
for the course that he had made a speech against the conscript law.
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