Newton County GaArchives News.....MR. MOSS'S DIARY AS KEPT DURING SIXTIES March 22 1917
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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

September, 1863

24....Got to Bristol about 9 o'clock and found a good many of the boys there, 
they thinking me dead. Sergt. LEE asked me to eat breakfast with him. I told 
him I was not near dead when there was anything to eat around. We was ordered 
to Zollicofer. I rode STEPHEN PICKET'S horse.  __________ went with Dr. SNEED. 
Got to Zollicofer about night.

25....We was ordered out on the road to Thomas Mill, camped in cedar thicket 
for the night, nothing to eat for 24 hours. I got a little bread from the 
wagons, half a dozen mouths full.

26....Lay in camp all day waiting for rations.

27....Got orders to be ready to move at a moments warning, that the Yanks were 
close by.

28...We moved 5 miles below Blountville and camped.

29...We moved near Jonesboro and camped.

30....We went to Henderson Mill and camped near there.

October, 1863

1.....Sent 25 men to look after the Yanks to Greenville. They came back and 
reported all gone. We moved 5 miles and camped. Rain powerful hard.

2.....We moved on and went through Rhea Town and when in 4 miles of Greenville 
we met the Yanks and had a small skirmish with them back through Greenville. 
Capt. LEWIS had his horse killed and JACK LINDSEY was wounded. We went about 3 
miles and camped.

3.....We went out the Knoxville road and had a small skirmish fight. Slept on 
our arms all night in line of battle. I helped cook rations for Co. B. They 
were on picket.

4.....Lay nearly all day in sight of the enemy.

5.....No advances on either side until about 3 o'clock. They attacked our 
pickets and drove them in. We mounted our horses and drove them back and then 
we fell back about 3-4 miles and took a position. Col GILTNER drove the left 
wing and drove them back from there but could not bring it away for the lack of
horses, but they soon drove him back.

6, 7....All quiet along the lines. Some little skirmishing with the pickets.

8.....GUS CONNOLLY started after the mail to Bristol. He was turned back. A 
forage detail was sent out with the wagons after forage. They was captured, 
part of them, and all of the wagons. We ran them to their picket post and there 
was too many of them.

9....All calm and quiet in the morning, a little rainy in the evening. Pickets 
commenced shooting at each other, first one and then another falling back until 
late in the evening, they stopped shooting and returned to camp, not much 
damage done on either side.

10....The pickets commenced at sunrise and seemed determined to run over  us 
anyhow. At 8 o'clock the 16th Ga. attacked them on the main road to Blue 
Spring. We advanced on them until we got to a fence at the edge of the woods. 
We held our ground there until nearly sundown, when they charged us with a 
division of infantry. We then felll back two miles towards Greenville and fed 
and eat something ourselves. We heard that 3,000 cavalry had gone around in our 
rear during the fighting. My gun lock got our of order and would not burst a 
cap and I was ordered to the rear and to our horses to get another gun. Soon as 
I got to our horses, HARRISON WOODRUFF was brought out wounded and then GEORGE 
ESTES.

11....no entry

12....no entry

To be Continued


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