Newton County GaArchives News.....MR. MOSS'S DIARY AS KEPT DURING SIXTIES April 26 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 7, 2004, 10:56 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, 1863 29....The 1st Tennessee had a skirmish with the Yanks. The Yanks charged the 1st but could not break his line in the morning. Genl. LONGSTREET charged Fort Brownlow, or as some calls it, Fort Sanders, but failed to take it. He lost a good many men by the charge. J. W. ANDERSON came to our camp. 30....We got orders to move around on the Cumberland gap road after dark. We started 12 o'clock, the ground frozen hard as a rock and tremendously cut up by wagons and artillery before freezing. We could hardly get our horses along over the road. Horses feet bled, had no shoes on, and more skinned knees and legs. I never saw such cold weather in my life and such suffering with cold and hope never to see again. Could get but little wood to burn. December, 1863 1.....Co. E and G put on picket on each side of the Cumberland gap road. 800 yards of the Yankee breastworks, and we sent out a forage detail after 10 o'clock, found but little, very scarce. 2.....Lieut. SPEER, Sergt. LEE and PHILLIPS went to see some of the 7th Ga. Regt. boys. Me and JOSEPH MEADORS went in the evening. Saw FRANK SAWYERS and CHAS. CAMP, BRICK PATTERSON and others we knew. The Yanks threw some shells over there just before we left and after we did leave. 3.....Co. A and B on picket had some fun in the evening after a beef that was between the lines. We heard BRAGG was retreating and LONGSTREET was likely to be cut off. The wagons commenced moving towards Strawberry Plains, all day the road was alive with them. Co. B and A was relieved by Co C. 4....Late in the evening the artillery commenced moving and some of the calvary. As dark commenced the infantry began moving. H. B. MEADORS started to Bristol after mail. 5.....About two hours before day we was ordered to mount our horses and we took the Cumberland gap road and marched until 12 o'clock that day and stopped and fed and staid there all night, 11 miles from Knoxville. 6.....We marched along side of Clinch Mountain to the Kentucky Gap and camped and picketted between the Gap. 7.....Co. B was ordered at 12 o'clock at night and had to cross the mountain and went on through Mooresburg and camped just before day of the 8th. 8.....We went after forage, put 20 men in gap at the top of mountain. I bought a pair of sox and some flax thread, paid three dollars for pound. 9.....In the evening news came that we was cut off. So we left and went through Mooresburg. 10....Our brigade went back to guard a wagon train loaded with wheat, to guard them to mill while the mill was to grind it. We had hardly passed through Mooresburg before our pickets was driven in. The Yank's were advancing. We fell back through Mooresburg and took a position and drove them back. 11....There was a detail made and started after forage, but Col. GILTNER turned us back and said the Yanks were advancing on us. We was ordered in line of battle and they opened on us with artillery, but we drove them back and ran them for several miles. 12....The 16th Ga. was ordered to report to Genl. TOM ANDERSON. We went to his headquarters and he sent Co. B to cross the mountain at Martin's Gap and the balance of the 16th to Stone Mountain Gap. Co. B Crossed and went down to Flat Gap and crossed back over and came to Stone Mountain Gap, where the balance of the 16th were. Raining powerful. 13....Continued to rain. We went after forage. 14....Part of the infantry moved back towards Knoxville and we was ordered to cross the Stone and Clinch Mountains. We overtook Col. Giltner and he had captured a wagon train and a few prisoners. We fell back the balance of the night and stopped and fed about day of the 15th. 15....We turned back and drove the Yanks out of Kentucky Gap. Col. Witcher made a daring charge on them. We then went down on the Cumberland side of the mountain to or near the river. Then we went to Notchies Gap and camped the most of the day. We could see Martin's cavalry pursuing them and fighting in the valley below us, driving them towards Strawberry Plains. The Yanks would rally once in a while and fought well. To Be Continued. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.8 Kb