Newton County GaArchives News.....MR. MOSS'S DIARY AS KEPT DURING SIXTIES October 26 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, 8:38 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 December, 1862 9.....We went to the wagon's camp, 7 miles from our old camp in Barren Valley at PARMER'S in Claborn County. 10....Pleasant day, sitting around. All the snow had melted in the valley. 11....J. H. ALLEN, of Company B., died at day break at ISAACK BESONS. Had been there some time sick. 12....ALLEN was buried at Union Church. 13....Meeting at Union Church. Several of the boys went. 14....Wrote a letter home. We had preaching in camp. 15....Sunday. We had preaching in camp and had orders to be ready to march. 16....We moved about 8- 1/2 miles to Lost Creek Camp, and orders for 20 ______ ________ ________ ___________ ________ ___________from Company B., owing to disabled horses. Me and E. P. MARRETT went fishing in Lost Creek; caught 3, made us a good mess; they were mountain trout. Had a heavy storm at night, blew down tents, all got wet. 17, 18, 19, 20....Pleasant days. Snowed a little at night the 19th. 21....Lieut. MEADORS and JOSEPH came to camp from home. 22....Lieut. MEADORS, me and others went to Rogers and took 3 prisoners for stealing horses, etc. 23....Lieut. MEADORS took 4 men and went on scout, after corn mostly, and we had election for 3rd Sergant caused by the death of J. C. ALLEN. Elected JOHN W. LEE. 24....Me and JOHN EDDLEMAN and W. J. BRIDGES went to Parlin Hill to take dinner with. It was a fine dinner. 25....Sergt. LEE gave several of the boys dinner at HILL'S. It was fine dinner. 26, 27....Windy and rainy both days and nights. 28....J. M. WOODRUFF started for home; put in his son as substitute. His son had already been but was under age at the time of enlistment and went home and came back and took his father's place. 29....Rained all day and snowed at night about the time LOVEJOY came to camp after the body of J. H. ALLEN, who died on the 11th instant. 30....Got orders to go to Wilson Gap on the Cumberland Mountain. Started in the evening and went near Fl_castle and camped. 31....Went to Rogers Gap and Co A. and B. to Baptist Gap, nearer Cumberland Gap. We got there at sundown, powerful cold. We put out pickets in Gap, go orders about dark to be ready to march at a moments warning. Where we was we could get no wood to make fires and the ground froze as hard as a rock. At 12 o'clock the balance of the Battalion came up, on the way to Cumberland Gap, Major SAMUEL J. WINN in command, Col. NIX being under arrest, him and Captain BAILEY and Capt. ALLEN for violating orders issued by Gen. GRACIE. At 4 o'clock we was ordered to mount horses and form. Major went into a house and we sat on our horses for over one hour, waiting for him in the cold. He got something to eat, then we went on the Cumberland Gap. Got there bout sun up on the 1st day of 1863. January, 1863 1.....Drew corn and rations and feed. General GRACIE had a general review of the soldiers of his command. I saw Daniel Moss and his brother in law there at the Gap. Reynolds was his brother in law. 2.....Left the Gap at sun up and went up in Virginia towards Jonesville at Rose Hill a nice little town and staid all night and drew rations and Capt. Pitman had it cooked for us. 3.....We heard the Yankees had destroyed or burnt the bridges at Zollicofer and Casters Station across the river, and had started back to cross the mountain at Jonesville. We put out for Jonesville and had not gone far, when we met a courier, saying they were a coming on towards the Gap. Company A and B were sent to meet them. Me and JOE MEADORS were sent forward as vide_s to meet them. We soon met another courier saying they all had crossed at Jonesville and was over in Kentucky. General MARSHAL had run them to Jonesville and was too drunk to command his men and wanted to wait until morning to capture them, saying the Gap was guarded by Captain Foot and could hold until morning. So they got away. We turned back and went to within 15 miles of Tazwell and camped for the night. 4.....Went through Tazwell and alarmed a wagon train, they ran about 6 miles, thinking we were Yanks. We camped at PARMER'S that night. 5.....We crossed the Clinch River and fed at 12 o'clock. Our wagon had passed there the evening before. We got to Jett's mills at 8 o'clock and went into camp. We found all the straggling boys with the wagons that had straggled off. 6.....We lay around promiscuously all day. 7.....I was appointed Commisary in Captain PITMAN'S place. I went meat hunting and found some of the largest meat I most ever saw. I got 2 hams, 2 shoulders, and 2 sides that weighed dried 469 pounds. 8.....Me and long JIM CORLEY was sent back to our various old camps to collect up receipts and give new ones for them, so they could get their money for forage. Staid the first night at WM. DUKES. TO BE CONT. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 5.5 Kb