Randolph County AlArchives News.....Testimony of Wm Hugh Smith to John Phillips  January 24, 1863
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The Nashville Daily Union January 24, 1863
Office Provost Marshal General,
Corinth, Jan. 26, 1863. 
Wm. H. Smith appeared before me this January 26th, and on his oath, says:
He is a resident of Randolph County, Alabama; was a member of the Legislature of 
Alabama in 1855, '56, '57, and '58, and was a Douglas elector in Alabama in 
1860; has understood that the rebels were hunting men down with dogs; hears also 
that two women had been torn by dogs. On his way to Corinth, heard that a man 
named Kennedy, who has two sons in the Union army, was taken and hung by 
Roddey's men charged with having visited his sons. They gave a negro a plug of 
tobacco to bury the corpse. Jan. 18th, having secured a pilot, met with Messrs. 
Starkey and Branefield in Itawamba County, Miss, at the residence of Starkey; 
while there were surprised by cavalry; Starkey ran was fired on four times and 
escaped; cavalry went to the house of Mr. Steadman, a representative in the 
Legislature, and a Union man; rode him on a rail and gave him his choice to 
remain silent on the Union question or be hung he chose the latter course. Eight 
hundred cavalry came into Randolph County to hang him, (Smith,) assigning as a 
reason for his course that he had made a speech against the conscript law. 
WM. H. SMITH. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me, at Corinth, 
Jan. 24th, 1863. 
JOHN PHILLIPS, Captain and Dist Prov. Marshal Gen.

Additional Comments:
After the Civil War, Wm Hugh Smith was appointed Governor of Alabama.

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