Negro Outrages in Greene and Sumter Counties

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Source Type

Newspaper

Publisher

The Montgomery Advertiser

Publication Place

Montgomery, AL

Publication Date

9/23/1874

Transcript

When the party was fired into, Mr. A. Robinson was mortally and Mr. Thos Little dangerously wounded: the others reported results in Forkland. The citizens met and sent out scouts who found the negroes (some 200) assembled at the roe place' shots were fired and the negroes dispersed. About daylight they were found reasmbled and marching on Forklan; 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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