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From the Slave Narratives, the following:

Source: Mr. Charlie Jeff Harvey, Rt.4, Box 85. Union, S.C. Interviewer: Caldwell Sims, Union, S.C. 8/18/37.(Project #1655, W. W. Dixon, Winnsboro, S. C.): "Harvey, Charlie Jeff, South Carolina -
"I was born July 16, 1852 at Jeter's old mill place in Santuc township . . . My father. Tom Clark, was a laborer for the Jeters and old man Tom Sims up on Broad River at what was then known as Simstown . . . When I was twelve, my father went to the Confederate War. He joined the Holcombe Legion of Union County and they went immediately to Charleston . . . My own father was shot down for the first time at the Second Battle of Manassas. Here he got a lick over his left eye that was about the size of a bullet; but he said that he thought the lick came from a bit of shell. They carried him to a temporary make-shift hospital that had been improvised behind the breastworks. A soldier who was recovering from a wound nursed him as best he could. The second time my father was wounded was in Kingston, N.C. He shot a Yankee from behind a tree and he saw the blood spurt from him as he fell. Just about that time he saw another Yankee behind a tree leveling a gun at him. Father threw up his gun but too late, the Yankee shot and tore his arm all to pieces. The bullet went through his arm and struck the corner of his mouth knocking out part of his jaw bone. Then it went under the neck vein and finally it came out on his back knocking a hole in one of his shoulder blades large enough to lay your two thumbs in. His gun stock was also cut into. He lay on the battlefield for a whole day and night; then he was carried to a house where some kind ladies acting as nurses cared for him for over four months . . . Father lived until March, 1st. 1932 when he dies at the rise old are of 102"

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