| Summary: | Account of the Union raid in Selma, Alabama, as remembered by Sarah Ellen Phillips. She describes an attack on a Confederate scouting party; her father's escape to Perry County; and the ransacking of local homes, including her own. In particular she recalls an encounter between her mother and a Union captain, who demanded gold: "After repeated question about our gold, of which they appeared to think we possessed thousands, he seemed bent and determined to force a confession from mother as to where our gold was hidden. She told him she could show it to him. 'You see all these servants standing around us and out there in the yard. There is our gold.'...'Yes, more acres and more gold' was the Southerners [sic] motto."
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