Newton County GaArchives News.....MR. MOSS'S DIARY AS KEPT DURING SIXTIES April 5 1917 ************************************************ 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 6, 2004, 12:15 am 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 October, 1863 13....________ _________ __________ _______ __________ _________ there was no one to report to. So we got in a supply of forage and was just going into camps and news came that the Yanks were within 2 miles of us. The 1st Tennessee Regt. came by us a throwing away their forage and some of the 16th threw away theirs. I held on to mine. We got to the road leading to Blountville and stopped and went into the camp for the night. 14....While we were eating breakfast, we was ordered to mount our horses and the Yanks were driving Col. GILTNER. We fell back to Blountville and made a stand until they flanked us and then went to Zollicofer and staid until they had passed Blountville and after dark we put out for Abingdon, Virginia. Stopped at Paperville, then the 16th was put as wagon guard. 15....We got to Abingdon, Va., about 11 o'clock, camped at the fork of roads near the town, and rested and got forage for the night,and then moved over on another road on top of High Hill and formed a line of battle and camped for the night. Rained powerful hard. We made places to sleep out of corn shucks and nothing to eat but Irish potatoes, the Yanks within 2 miles of us. 16....We was ordered in line of battle, rained all day, no advance, we could see them peeping over the hills once in a while. 17....We still held our line until in the evening; then we was ordered to our horses, the Yanks were falling back towards Bristol and we had some scouts after them. 18....Rainy all day Sunday. 19....We drew some clothing, what they had, about 3 garments to the company. SANFORD WHEELER got back from scouting with Col. BATTLES. He was killed near Zollicoffer in a skirmish fight. 20.... General Rivers at Abingdon heard the Yanks were no nearer than Spurgeon's Ford. 21, 22....Drilled some and got orders to move the next day. 23....Several of the boys started home in the night, while it was dark and rainey, so rainey we did not move. One reason of the boy's leaving, we could get nothing to eat or wear and our transfer had been captured at Glade Springs after it was signed up. Capt. LEWIS was sent with a squad after the runaway boys. 24....We left Abingdon at 12 o'clock for Duvald's Ford. We went down the Reedy Creek Camp Ground road. Camped and staid all night opposite Bristol. 25....We had nothing to feed on. 26....Left for Kingsport, pased Reedy Creek Camp Ground about 3 miles, and turned back to Reedy Creek and camped for the night. 27....Started for Blountville and camped on the road to Duvald's Ford. 28....Captain LEWIS got back with the boys. 29....Wrote furloughs for JOSEPH MEADORS and H. H. ARMSTRONG. 30....Sent Scout to Kingsport, inspection of the 16th Ga. by Capt. MARLOW. 31....Got orders in the morning to advance but the orders was countermanded. Nor forage nor any rations. N. J. SKINNER was detailed to make boots and shoes at Paperville. November, 1863 1.....Sunday, all quiet in camps. 2.....Got orders to be ready to march at a moments warning. 3.....Lieut. C. R. HODGE came to us from Glade Springs. He had been there with disabled horses. 4....Ordered to cook 3 days rations and be ready to march at a moment's warning or at 12 o'clock. We started and got there after dark, the Tennesseeans call it the Boat Landing. 5....We remained all day on the Island, it raining. About sundown when the boys nearly all was out hunting something to eat, orders came for us to mount our horses and follow the artillery towards Rogersville. We left after dark and it pouring down rain all the time, and we had a time crossing the north fork of the Holston River, the cavalry fording, the artillery crossing on flat. One gun running out of the flat but we got it out by hitching a rope and dragging it out. To Be Continued This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.5 Kb