| State of Georgia |
| County of Baldwin |
| |
| Personally appeared before me
A. M. Calloway, Justice of the Inferior Court in & for said County & State, H. L. Wing, who being duly sworn according
to law deposes and says that the deposent has just read over the affidavit
of A. T. Anderson written on the three preceding pages of this paper {UG, W&A 4-4-65},
and that the Statements contained & made in said affidavit are
true and correct as therein stated. That deposent knows those
statements to be true from his own knowledge as he, deposent was the
Conductor of one of the two said State of Georgia trains {Western
& Atlantic RR} employed to remove the said State of Georgia
cotton from Wilmington to Florence SC, & that deposent was with
those two trains all the time whilst they were running said cotton,
when they were impressed by Lt. Col. Williams, when they were released
&c and was at Florence, when the Confederate officer in command of
the post at Florence had the said State of Georgia cotton burned as
stated by Mr. Anderson in his aforesaid affidavit, and deposent said
the said cotton burned at Florence as stated by the said Anderson in
his said affidavit. Deposent further states that the enemy did not get
possession of Florence at all being repulsed by our forces. Neither
were the enemy at any time in possession of the place where the
Georgia State cotton was piled, and that if the enemy had obtained
possession of the cotton, they could have done nothing with the cotton
but burn it as they had no means of transporting it to the interior
within the reach from the coast. |
| Sworn to & subscribed before me this
8th day of April 1865 |
| H. L. Wing |
|