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County, Tennessee. I was doing- a large business with 

 "him when the Civil War commenced in 1861, and con- 

 tinued to do business with him until the fall of 1862, 

 when the Federal and Confederate armies were fight- 

 ing at Richmond and Perryville, Ky. I had a public 

 stock sale and sold some jacks, horses, mule colts, hogs 

 and other stock, believing that either army was liable 

 to take my stock if they needed them. I lived in the 

 southern part of Rutherford County, Middle Ten- 

 nessee, where both armies concentrated at Murfrees- 

 boro and where was fought one of the heavy battles 

 of the war (Stone's River or the battle of Murfrees- 

 boro). This jack. Monarch, was sold at my sale 

 at $900. I was offered by Esq. Lane, of Walker 

 County, Georgia, $1,000 in gold for this jack a few 

 ■days before he was two years old. I had bought a 

 farm and had commenced preparing for stock farming ; 

 was satisfied that I could make a good jack pay me 

 better to keep him and buy up his mule colts at wean- 

 ing or yearlings. I bought good bone fillies and bred 

 them to my jack. When they got with foal they would 

 grow and spread and enhance in value when I could 

 sell them for good profits or swap them for good 

 young mules and sell the mules. So you perceive I 

 was making the jack's services pay me as well as en- 

 hancing the value of my young brood mares by getting 

 them with foal, and by buying the young mules he 

 would produce in the neighborhood. All of which 

 were fruitful sources of revenue. Besides I was im- 

 proving my soil and enhancing the value of my farm. 

 I have long since learned that it is the growth and 

 enhancement of a man's property that makes him his 

 capital. How rarely we see a man who works for 



