Newton County GaArchives News.....MR. MOSS'S DIARY AS KEPT DURING SIXTIES June 22 1916
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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


October, 1861
21....Tremendous winds and rain. A good deal of drunkenness in camps. Captain 
HUGHES sold out a good deal to the boys that did not get drunk, and a good time 
was had by order of Col. WRIGHT.

22....I had the gravel very bad and Poney GORDAN, of Company G.

23....Court Marshal commenced with the cases of J. M. TINSLEY and JAMES RICE.
 
24....RAMSEY and STARR left for home. The steamers, Curlew, Raleigh, and Sea 
Bird went down towards Hateras Inlet.

25....Target shooting at West Point Battery across the sound.

26....Lieutenant Sturgis practicing with the Light Artillery at the Marshes.

27....DAVID HARRIS and JOHN W. ELLIS got their furloughs and took their baggage 
to the wharf, ready to go aboard the steamer, Cotton Plant, but did not get off.

28....NEWTON ANDERSON and REUBIN COOK came to Roanoke Island to see the boys, 
HARRIS and ELLIS, got off home. I got some clothes that ANDERSON brought me 
from home.

29....Commenced cleaning up lace for winter quarters, 20 men from each company 
with axes, 15 to each company.

30....I was just able to walk a little.

31....Lieutenant EVANS wanted me to go with him up to where they were to work 
on winter quarters and advise around. I went when they went.

November, 1861

1.....We were all ordered to the marshes. Heard there was a steamer drifting 
ashore, but it turned out to be false.

2.....Stormy all day and night.

3, 4....The boys got their sick furloughs to go home.

5.....ANDERSON and COOK left for home and Major LEE went with them to Norfolk. 
The Company signed a certificate for him to draw our money.

6.....Rainy day, thundered, and stormy, very high tide. There was a wreck of a 
French steamer off the bar and the Confederate steamer, Winslow.

7, 8, 9, 10, 11....Drilling every day twice in Regiment drill.

12....The North Carolina Militia arriving on the Island.

13....Lieutenant  EVANS took 30 men to work on winter quarters. I was on guard 
at headquarters and EVANS got a man in my place and I went with him. Two of 
Company G. were put in the guard house for deserting.

14....Considerable confusion amongst North Carolina Militia. NIX, of Company H, 
ran off a yoke of oxen in the mud. There was a crossway over the marsh. He had 
to have help to get out.

15....Was fast day. We worked until 12 o'clock and took holiday. It was 
appointed by the President.

16....I worked half a day and had a chill. Row in camps, caused by drunkeness.

17....General inspection of our arms, etc. Me and THOMAS KENNON were left at 
winter quarters to guard the camp.

18, 19....Pressing horses and oxen to haul with for the winter quarters, lumber 
and logs, etc.

20....JOHN W. ELLIS got back from home.

21....Serenading party came up from the lower camp to the new. Dr. J. C. 
ANDERSON had his arm broke from a fall off a horse.

22....Commenced getting sleepers for winter quarters. I got a pair of socks and 
tow bottles of whiskey from BOB HILLEY.

23....We had to cut sleepers one mile from camps on a road. Athens Guard went 
to pick up stragglers about over the island.

24,25....We went to framing rafters on winter quarters.

26....EVANS and MONTGOMERY and HARTLEY started home on furloughs on steamer 
Wilson.

27....Commenced shingling on winter quarters.

28....My birthday,  36 years old. Me and A. B. WILLIAMS  went down to old camps 
after some brandy which had come from Georgia and some knapsacks. Colonel 
WRIGHT extended the time of the boys at home 15 days longer.

29,30....Stormy and rainy both days. One of the Athens Guard died, named 
SIMMONS.

To Be Continued.



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