Hi. Happy Labor Day. I posted to all the other rebs this afternoon so I didn’t want to leave you out.
Back to your yankee cover-up...
From the slave narrative of Sam Word, 1122 Missouri Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas at 78 years of age:
I saw the Blue and the Gray and the gray clothes had buttons that said C.S., that meant secessioners. Yankees had U.S. on their buttons. Some of em come there so regular they got familiar with me. Yankees come and wanted to hang old master cause he wouldn’t tell where the money was. They tied his hands behind him and had a rope around his neck. Now this is the straight goods. I was just a boy and I was cryin’ cause I didn’t want em to hang old master. A Yankee lieutenant comes up and made em quit-they was just the privates you know…
…Mother had lots of nice things, quilts and things, and kept em in a chest in her little old shack. One day a Yankee soldier climbed in the back window and took some of the quilts. He rolled em up and was walking out of the yard when mother saw him and said, ‘Why you nasty, stinkin’ rascal. You may you come down here to fight for the n*ggers, and now you’re stealin’ from em.’ He said, ‘You’re a G-D-liar, I’m fightin’ for $14 a month and the Union…
Happy Labor Day to all.