Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire Into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. Alabama Volume II (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...of Macon County. Question. You had to run? Answer. Yes, sir; I run and staid in the swamp ten days. Question. Who were the men of this committee? Answer. Mr. Carlos, Mr. Johnson Question. Was it Robert Johnson? Answer. Yes, sir. Question. Who were the others? Answer. Genera Gunn, Thomas Dryer, Mr. Campbell, Mr. McMullen, Doctor Grigg. Question. Did you quit the county then? Answer. I didn't quit right then. I was in the swamp ten days before I quit. They had men hunting me every day. Orders was given by Mr. Abercrombie for me not to be taken--but I was too sharp--wherever they found me to kill me; that the dead couldn't tell tales. That's what he has told. I staid in the swamp, and dodged him in it, and dodged every time I saw them coming, and I made my escape by walking fifty miles, all night and day, going to Montgomery. Montgomery, Alabama, October 18,1871, WM. DOUGHERTY sworn and examined. By the Chairman: Question. State where you reside at this time. Answer. At Opelika, Lee County, Alabama. Question. Of what State are you a native? Answer. Of the State of Georgia. Question. Where were you living in June, 1870? Ansiver. In Macon County, Alabama, at Tuskegee. Question. What was your occupation at that time f Answer. Practicing attorney--I am a little too fast, it might be said I was a practicing attorney at that time, but I was doing no business; I had got a commission as assistant marshal to take the census for that county. Question. Did you take the census for Macon County? Ansiver. I did, sir, for a large portion of the county. Question. You may state to the committee whether you were ever molested or interfered with in the discharge of your duties as assistant marshal. Ansiver. Yes, sir; some time in the month of June, after I had...