Newton County GaArchives News.....MR. MOSS'S DIARY AS KEPT DURING SIXTIES May 24 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

January, 1864

6.....We staid in camps and could hear fighting going on over the river nearly 
all day.

7.....Snowed, covering the ground 6 inches deep.

8.....Left camp and started for Chucky river. Could not get any forage to feed 
on at night.

9.....We got to mouth of Chucky and camped.

10....Went up the French Broad river after forage, and got plenty river full of 
ice.

11....Fine weather. Longstreet wagons were hauling corn from over the other 
side of French Broad to Morristown. They got corn out of the ditch bottom. 
There was plenty of corn and hay.

12....Orders to saddle up. The Yanks were advancing. General ARMSTRONG sent 
______ ______ ________ _______ _________.

13....Co. B on picket. DAY rode my horse after forage over the river, and 
coming back the horse fell down and DAY got a duckling in the ice water, corn 
and all.

14....I finished making out the payrolls.

15....We moved to Morristown. E. C. MERRITT and WHEELER started home on fulough.

16....We had a sharp skirmish at Mossey Creek in the evening. We _______ them 
back.

17....Moved to Panther Springs, the whole brigade.  _______ ________ to be a 
great gambling place.

18....We advanced to Mossey Creek, and drove the Yanks out and staid until 
after dark, and fell back to Panther Springs.

19....Snow had thawed. Got orders to go to Pigeon River Valley. I had loaned my 
horse to SANFORD WHEELER to go foraging about twenty miles over the river, so I 
was in a fix.

20....Orders came for to saddle up and got to Strawberry Plains. My horse being 
gone I had to go with the wagons and wait for my horse and then follow on, but 
Lieut. MILLSAPS was ordered to take the wagons, and go to Pigeon river where we 
cooked rations for the boys.

21....The wagons and what few there were of us staid at the ________ Chucky 
river, went up the French Broad nearly to ________. Staid for the night.

22....We crossed over to New Port and went to the ______.   24 miles from Warm 
Springs after forage late in the evening ______ _______. News came that the 
Yanks were close by and going   _____  ___    ____  that night. We saddled up, 
put out wagons and all to N_____ crossed over and camped.

23....We crossed back and went to our old camp at Pigeon River, and had hardly 
got our saddles off when firing commenced n_____  ___ us. We put back across 
French Broad, but left a scout ________, Captain LEWIS and Lieut. McCOY, of Co 
C. We had not been gone long when news came the scout was cut off and the Yanks 
w____  _____ wagons.  We then recrossed the river and took out the Ash____ ____ 
the forks, then the Greenville to the fork at Parrottsville, then on towards 
Russellville and camped at 10 o'clock at night, in the woods.

January 24-31, is missing.

To Be Continued.


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