Newton County GaArchives News.....MR. MOSS'S DIARY AS KEPT DURING SIXTIES May 25 1916 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Phyllis Thompson mandpthompson@bellsouth.net February 1, 2004, 11:09 pm The Covington News "This Is As I Saw It. It May Be Different As Others Saw It" He Says of 3d Regiment, Company H. BEGINNING WITH THE YEAR 1861 APRIL, 1861 26, 27, 28.....Young Guard Company H. got orders on the 26th day of April to go to Richmond _____ _____ ______ _____ at 11 o'clock Saturday, got to Augusta at 5 o'clock. Staid all night at the Globe Hotel, took supper and breakfast the next morning, the 28th, and then marched to the Clinch Rifles drill room and was mustered into the service of the Confederate States for 12 months unless sooner discharged by officers of the Confederacy. 29.....We drilled and received our muskets, regular old smoothe bore, had to give up our Minnie Muskets, and drew our cooking utensils. 30.....Left Augusta at 7:30 o'clock, got to Weldon at 1 o'clock, and had to wait for a dispatch there. We went to where they were catching rock fish with dip nets in the shoals. Part of us bought one and Captain LEE had it cooked and 14 of us were eating, when the dispatch came. We were ordered to Portsmouth, Va., and arrived there on the morning of the 2nd at 2 o'clock, and put up at the court house. We had but 15 cartridges in the company. I had them and they would not fit our guns. MAY, 1861 2.....We got breakfast at the Macon Hotel and about 10 o'clock we moved to the Navy Hospital, took up quarters in the 3rd story of the building. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.....Drilled twice a day and had dress parade every evening at 5 o'clock. 12.....Good deal of excitement amongst the soldiers, caused by the steamers Pocahantas and Pawnee cruising abut the Hampton Roads and New port News. To be cont. Additional Comments: Mr. Moss's Diary appeared in "The Covington News" from May 1918 - Oct. 1917. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb