CCLHP: Deposition of John Worrell
State of Illinois
Coles County
John C. Worrell aged 23 years residing in Hickory township in said County on oath says that he heard Bryant Thornhill make a speech at Oakland last summer in which he said to his hearers that if any union man or Abolitionist throw out and insinuations against them (the Butternuts) to shoot them (the union men) down as the would a dog.
John C. Worrell (signed)
Subscribed & sworn to
before me this 12 day of April 1864
Geo. Teel, clk.
Circuit Court
Coles County, Ills.