Return to First Page-----ARKANSAS HISTORICAL QUARTERLY, Volume 16, Summer 1957, p. 210
I saw the courthouse at Hamburg, it had holes mad by bullets on all four sides of the building.
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(Signed) A. C. Ussery.
Sworn to and subscribed to before me this
23d day of January 1914.
(Signed) J. H. Demby.
Appendix "C"
Hot Springs, Ark.
J. L. Wacaster. I am 64 years of age, was born in Montgomery County near Caddo Gap. My post-office address is Hot Springs, Arkansas. I was a member of Captain Morgan Ussery's Company, 1st Arkansas State Guards. Major Demby had me detailed to cook for him the day the Company left Mt. Ida on the campaign. I cooked for him until the Regiment was paid and discharged from active service at Little Rock in January, 1869. Major Demby would select a good large tree and have it cut down, the Regimental Flag would be raised near that log, the Head Quarters mess would get a good fire started and all hands go to work to make the night as comfortable as possible. Maj. Demby never eat a meal, but one with a relative in Monticello on Christmas day, in a house, but always by his log with the Regimental Head Quarters Mess. I saw the Negro shot at Richmond. I saw the two men, Cardwell and Wallace, that had killed Andrews and Willis, hung at Rocky Comfort, Little River County, Arkansas in November 1868. I remember seeing the bullet holes in the courthouse at Hamburg in Ashley County, that had been shot by the Ku Klux.
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(Signed) J. L. Wacaster
Sworn to and subscribed to before me this
21st day of January, 1913.
(Signed) J. H. Demby, Notary Public.
