Newton County GaArchives News.....MR. MOSS'S DIARY AS KEPT DURING SIXTIES August 17 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

May, 1862

4.....Orders came for us to be ready to march to Deep Creek immediately. We got 
there at dark. I was nearly give out and it was raining. I bought a piece of 
bear meat and sent it on with my mess. I slept on the porch of a store house 
behind some boxes until day.

5.....I went to where there were several sick. The Regiment had put up tents in 
an old field the night before. Captain GRIMES and Captain McCOMAS artillery 
came to us and the Sussex Light Dragons. Orders came for us to go to Bower's 
Hill.

6.....Left for Bower's Hill at 4 o'clock in the morning.

7....Orders to cook three days rations and be ready to march at a minutes 
warning. Several of the boys got permission to go to Portsmouth after dress 
uniforms.

8....The uniforms came to Bowers Hill. The iron clad vessells attacked Sewell's 
Point Battery, the Merrimac went out and they retired back to Fortress Monroe.

9.....Orders came for us to go to Suffolk, ten miles from Bowers Hill. We 
started just before night and got there at 11 o'clock at night and lay down 
promiscuously to sleep.

10....We got the news that the Yanks were marching into Norfolk. Our troops 
fired the Navy Yard and retreated to Suffolk where we were. We were ordered to 
cook three days rations and be ready to march at a moments warning.

11....Sunday morning. The Merrimac was fired at 3 o'clock and blew up at 5. It 
made the earth tremble at Suffolk.  The crew of the Merrimac commenced coming 
along at 1 o'clock. We marched out to the Canal at 4 o'clock and staid all 
night.

12....Started to Petersburg soon in the morning, stopped within two miles of 
Black Water River and rested and staid all night, three regiments together.

13....Commenced marching at day break and marched all day hard. Powerful dusty.

14....I was taken sick and had to ride in a wagon over a plank road all day, 
and  I got good wet, laying flat of my back, and could not turn over. Got 
within 1 1/2 miles of Petersburg and camped. John Wheeler was with
me all day.

15....Got to Petersburg and put up tents in an old field. Dress parade.

16....Dress parade, and strict orders issued.

17....I was sent to the General Hospital at the Fair Ground; bad off for twelve 
days, don't know what happened much until the 30th.

30....Big storm at night.

31....Able to write a short letter home.

June, 1862

1.....Dispatches arriving constantly from Richmond, the battle becoming a 
general engagement.

2.....Prisoners commenced arriving and the wounded to Petersburg.

3.....Troops commenced pouring into Richmond from all quarters, great 
excitement about the fighting that was going on, and the results; everything 
was getting ready for the worst results that had ever happened.

4, 5, 6, 7, 8....Skirmishing and some battles.

9.....So cold, we had to have fire in the stoves to keep warm.

10....I wrote a letter to Richmond. Troops coming in on every train from 
Savannah, Georgia

11....Cool and blustry, had to sit around the stoves.

12....Turned warmer. Me and ROWAN went to the poor house after milk. Cut us 
some waking sticks.

13....Hot and Cloudy.

14,  15....Storm in the evening of the 15th.

16....Cool again. Fighting at Drewry's Bluff. I got a letter from THOS. A. 
WALKER.

17....Heavy firing towards Richmond. SHEPARD, of Company F, third Georgia 
Regiment, died.

18....NASH, of Wright's Legion, DeKalb county, died.

19....I was taken worse off.

20....I went to the Confederate hospital to see C. C. ROBERSON, who was sick 
there.

21....Sergt. Major ALEXANDER came to the General Hospital.

22....I was very sick all day. Had preaching at the Spring three times this day.

23....Big storm and hail.

To Be Continued


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