miles from home. We followed this road until we reached Senatobia, about half past seven in the evening. We felt good, and, stopping all night, we started the next morning for Hernando, Miss., another small town, and reached nude teens ru there at two o'clock in the afternoon. The most of the bridges had been burned,
by the troops, and there were
no regular railroad trains. Fortunately, however, flat cars, drawn by horses were run over the road; and on a train of
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nude teens ru this kind we took passage. On several occasions, the passengers had to get out, and nude teens ru push the nude teens ru car over a bridge, as it nude teens ru was not made so horses could cross on it, the horses meantime being driven or led through the stream, and nude teens ru then hitched nude teens ru to the car again. After we had gone through this process repeatedly, we at last reached Memphis, arriving about seven o'clock Monday evening. The city was filled with slaves, from all over the south, who cheered and gave nude teens ru us a welcome. I could scarcely recognize Memphis, things were nude teens ru so changed. We met numbers nude teens ru of our fellow servants who had run away before nude teens ru us, when the nude teens ru war began. Tuesday and Wednesday we spent in making inquiries; and I visited our old home at McGee's station. But how different it was from what it had been when the McGees were there. All was changed. Thursday we went to see Col. Walker, a Union officer, who looked after the colored folks, and saw that they had their rights. When we reached his nude teens ru office we found it so filled with people, waiting to see him, that we nude teens ru were delayed about two hours, before we had nude teens ru an opportunity of speaking with him. When our turn came, we went in, and told him that we were citizens of Memphis until nude teens ru the fall of Fort Pillow and Donelson,
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when our master had run us nude teens ru off, with a hundred other slaves, into Mississippi, nude teens ru and thence to the salt works in Alabama. He questioned us