State of Illinois
Coles County

Robert Smith, aged 54 years residing in Charleston, Ills. on oath says that I was in Charleston on the 28th of March 1864, being the day of the Copperhead raid. I saw Bryant Thornhill with J.H. OHair & others take a soldier named Levi Freizner prisoner about two blocks east of the public square on the street leading east of the south side of said public square.

Thornhill had a revolver in his hand at the time.

Robert Smith (signed)

Subscribed & sworn to
before me this 12th day
of April 1864.
Geo. Teel, clk.
Circuit Court
Coles Co. Ill’s.

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