JIM RICE-JOHN GROOMER, SCOUT COMPANY

They got Sam here. Sam would not go into the army. They were out scouting and took Sam, but  they worked kind of a trick on him. They went by his house and asked his wife if Sam was there, his wife said, no, (but Sam was near by). They left word for Sam to come over to the camp, acted like they did not want him, so Sam not suspecting anything walked into their camp and they took him, he took down the names of every man in that scout. Well Sam was carried to Waco, where he was kept under guard. One night they had an old man, named Clanton, I have seen him many a time, guarding Sam and Sam went to the door for something and jumped out an ran off. The first place that he could get to he got a horse (he knew whose horse it was) and came on home when he got home he wrote the party owning the horse a letter telling him where to find the horse and sending money for what ever damage done.