Negro Outrages in Greene and Sumter Counties

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Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

The Huntsville Weekly Democrat

Publication Place

Hunstville, AL

Publication Date

10/1/1874

Transcript

LATEST.- WE delayed our paper fro the purpose of getting the latest from the scene of action. This coming in from an eye-witness, Mr. Andrew Pickens, who was one of the sheriff's posse, and is correct in every particular: When the party was fired into. Mr. A. Robinson was mortally and Mr. Thos. Little danerously wounded; the other reported results in Forkland. The citizens met and sent out scouts who found the negroes (some 200) assemled at the roe place; shots were fired and the negroes diseresed. about daylight they were found reassmbled and marching on Forkland; the whites made a charge, killing a negro leader, (granville)and capturing another leader, (skinner), with either others. In the charge several whites were wounded, among them Mr. Barton, whose horse was also shot.

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