Newton County GaArchives News.....MR. MOSS'S DIARY AS KEPT DURING SIXTIES September 21 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

July, 1862

23....I walked out to a tobacco house and bought some fine tobacco.

24....Me and ROWAN went over to the poor house and got some milk.

25....A good many soldiers left for their commands. The school teacher G. W. 
SWAN, went off with them. He was playing off all the time; he belonged to the 
Richmond Artillery. They all came back, they could not get off for the crowd.

26....Me and ROWAN went out to get huckleberries,and had to run back to get our 
of the rain.

27....Preaching of two funerals: first text was from Proverbs, 27th Chapter, 
1st verse; Second sermon, Isaiah, 57th Chapter and 1st and 2nd verses.

28....Me and ROWAN left _______ ______ _____ _______ _________to _____ ___ and 
found the Regiment there at Camp Ben Hill. We walked about 5 miles. We had a 
little fun on the road; we had just left the half way station, we were on the 
ears, and we saw some of our Company getting blackberries and we thought they 
were camped close by, and we jumped off the train. I threw my knapsack before I 
jumped and lighted all right. My knapsack rolled about 60 feet into a briar 
patch. Rowan jumped and lit on his head and shoulders and rolled over and over 
into the briar patch, but we got to camp at 2 o'clock.

29....Sent in my application for discharge. Went to the creek and washed my 
feet for the first time in three months. The artillery was passing most all day 
to the Appomattox River at its junction where the Yankee fleet was massed.

30....Commenced raining and rained all day nearly.

31....In the morning at about 2 o'clock the artillery opened on the fleet but 
could do nothing much: they moved out of reach of our guns. I got my discharge.

August, 1862

1.....I got V. R. GIRARDY to sign my discharge, so I could get transportation 
to go home, me and JOB RUSSELL and several others. S. H. PATTILLO and DR. 
JASPER BRYAN came to camps to see the boys and wanted me to wait over one day 
longer for them. I agreed to wait until the next day.

2.....Me and S. H. PATTILLO left Camp Ben Hill for home. We went to Petersburg 
and staid there until 6 o'clock in the evening, when we left for Weldon, N. C., 
got there at 11 o'clock that night.

3.....The train broke down 23 miles from Wilmington on Sunday and we had to 
back on to a siding for another train to pass us, got to Wilmington at 1 
o'clock. Did not make the connections. We lay over there all day. I paid three 
dollars for a watermelon and me and PATTILLO and Dr. PEG eat it, or the most of 
it. I was not able to carry it, I was too weak. We left Wimington at 8 o'clock 
that night.

4.....Got to Branchville at 10 1/2 o'clock, to Augusta at 3 1/2 o'clock, to 
Covington at 12 o'clock. Staid the balance of the night at Mrs. McCAYS.

5.....I got home in the evening. This ended my infantry service for 1861 and 
1862.
At home until October 13, 1862.

To Be Continued

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