WILLIAMS' TENNESSEE AND MISSISSIPPI 

 CAMPAIGNS 



In the spring of 1806 Uncle Berry made a match of 

 mile heats, $500 a side, over the Hartsville Course, with 

 Henrietta against Cotton's Cygent, which he won. 



The old men of the neighborhood manifested great 

 sympathy for the young stranger, and predicted that 

 Lazarus Cotton would ruin him. 



This was his first race in Tennessee, and I witnessed his 

 last which was run over the Albion Course at Gallatin in 

 1862. 



Shortly after the race at Hartsville Uncle Berry trained 

 a famous quarter-race mare called Sallie Friar, by Jolly 

 Friar, and made a match for $500 a side which was run 

 on Goose Creek, near the Poison Knob. Sallie was the 

 winner; she was afterward purchased by Patton Anderson, 

 who ran her with great success. 



In the fall of 1806 Uncle Berry won with Post Boy 

 the jockey club purse, 3-mile heats at Gallatin, beating 

 General Jackson's Escape and others. Escape was the 

 favorite and the General and Mrs. Jackson, who were 

 present, backed him freely. Before this race he sold Post 

 Boy to Messrs. Richard and William L. Alexander for 

 $1,000 in the event of his winning the race; after this he 

 was withdrawn from the turf. 



Here he first met Gen. Jackson and made a match 

 with him on Henrietta against Bibb's mare for $1,000 a 

 side, 2-mile heats, equal weights, though the General's 



