Newton County GaArchives News.....MR. MOSS'S DIARY AS KEPT DURING SIXTIES October 19 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 2, 2004, 8:33 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 November, 1862 19....Left Town Creek and went over towards Tazewell Court House and then on to Keek's and camped. Rained as soon as we struck up after dark and continued till near day, when we was aroused by a bee gum burning, ___ ___ as high as 30 _____. WE _____ _____. 20....Finished making out pay rolls. 21....Snowed in the evening. Me and Capt. BAILEY went to Clinch River. 22....The Battalion was paid off to the 1st of September, 1862. It was the first time since the Battalion was formed they had any pay. They also got _______ of Fifty Dollars____ ____. _____ _____ ______ ____. 23, 24....Went to turnip patches and after forage. 26....CRATE FLEMISTER, Capt. BAILEY, BERRY, and HENDERSON started to Knoxville. 27....Lieut MEADORS started home on furlough. 28....Was my birthday. Me and Col. NIX went to hunt up stagger juice for my birthday. I was 37 years old. A red headed woman gave the Col. a blessing. 29....Me and GRIFFIN DRIGGERS, of Co., B went to hunt some oats; snowed on us before we got to camps. Capt. BAILEY got back from Knoxville. 30....A lot of boxes came to camp with clothing for Co B. We were fixing up to start to Cumberland Gap. J. Y. TINSLEY shot a cow of KEEK'S and had to pay for her 30 dollars. He shot her with a meat skin. We, or part of us, helped pay for her. We left in the evening and got there in the night.. December 1862 1.....We went into camp at the battle ground. Rained powerful hard. I slept until day under a large log. We left in the evening for Bald Gap. We camped in Virginia, close to Mulberry Gap, with Captain FOOTE, from Florida. 2.....We went over Cumberland Mountain and camped close to Black Mountain. 3.....Crossed the Black Mountain and camped at Smith in Harlem County. 4.....Passed through Mount Pleasant, county seat of Harlem Co., in the fork of two creeks, called Poor Forks, both of them. We were bushwhacked by a man named Shackleford, so the citizens said. We took up the left hand fork of creek and had not gone far when bushwhacking commenced again. We were attacked by a lot of home guards. We fell back a few hundred yards and formed a line and advanced on foot but they was too far up the mountain and went into camp for a while and then fell back to Mount Pleasant until day and then I was on picket, a squad of us in the fork of the 2 creeks. Two men, SMITH and UNTHANK, gave us supper and horse feed for the night and breakfast at 37 1/2 cents a piece. 5.....We then started for the salt works at sunrise. Snowed all day, the prettiest snow I ever saw fall while we were crossing the Black Mountains. We took down Red Bird Creek to within 1- 3/4 miles of Cumberland River and camped. The snow about knee deep at 11 o'clock at night. And a few bee gum heads came off. I slept in a house by the kindness of Col. NIX and Capt. BAILEY. 6.....We rode all day through the snow, the men suffering terribly, got to the salt works in the evening, and kept on through and charged into Manchester, the county seat of ________county. We taken up two recruiting officers that day and took them along. We left Manchester and came back to Salt Works and camped 1- 1/4 miles from salt works, at a man's barn by the name of WHITE, who gave us meat, meal and corn plenty. 7.....We went back nearly to salt works and took the Flat Lick road, passed Flat Lick about one mile and camped in a little village under a shelter, or Co. B did. The shelter was built by Yankees. We made fires in or along the center of the shelter. There was a lot of old Yankee tents left there and blankets. The fire warmed up the body louse and we go enough to last us a while with scratching. 8.....Started for Cumberland Gap by the Cumberland ford, got there at 3 o'clock, crossed the gap, and went 5 miles, Co B. And C. and camped. To Be Cont. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.5 Kb