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William unwell / got meal at last / at 10 p / G. A. Pillow / J.H. Thomas / Genl A. J. Smith / Jack Porter / Genl Smith rogues/ took all / distruction / lay & rot / the object / starve / go off

got out shortly after he went in. William is some better this
morning, if he can be kept still, the least distubance excites
him & he is up & a going. We got one of our Gard to go with
Saul to Mill & we have at last got a turn of Meal, having
Gratted the most of what have have eaten for 2 weeks. -
Granville A. Pillow was by here late yesterday evening trying
to get a Gard, he says he is badly used up. I see James H.
Thomas has a Gard Corpral & 2 men that is taking a good deal
of care of his things, I saw that yesterday, I was there.
Mat got here from Town today, he left home yesterday, says
Jack Porter is gone to Cincinatta thank god Genl A. J. Smiths
core has left the neighbourhood they are the worst rogues and
robers (Genl Croxtons not except) that have ever infested this
or any other land, the one half of them hanging would be too
good. They have not left any Corn Meat hogs sheep horses
they could take & have condisended to robing the negroes all
round us. You might hear 100 guns firing of a day, killing
every thing they could find & frequently they would take the
liver & sometimes one quarter & leave the rest to lay in the
fields & woods. They have killed sucking pigs & sows that had
pigs the over night. They have taken & killed all around me
I understand that the object of this course of Conduct of
destruction is to starve the whites & leave nothing for the
blacks to subsist on, by this means the blacks will all leave