Newton County GaArchives News.....MR. MOSS'S DIARY AS KEPT DURING SIXTIES September 13 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 13, 2004, 12:44 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 April 1864 29....They could not buy anything, we being soldiers. We then rode on to Leonora and got there at 4 o'clock, then we left the wagons and went 8- 1/2 miles and camped in the woods. Could get nothing but some half-done corn pones and black syrup that looked like pitch. We eat plenty of it and was glad to get it, thankful the syrup was no blacker and the bread no rawer. We borrowed a chunk of fire and went to the woods. Paid one dollar each for the meal, and we have never paid the loan of the chunk of fire. 30....We crossed the toll bridge on the Catawba river, 2- 1/2 miles from Hickory Station. Got to Hickory Station at 12 o'clock, started for Abingdon, Va., 20 minutes after. We went to Taylorsville and camped for the night. We forded the Catawba before we got there. May, 1864 1.....________ _________ ____ ________ of horses, and I was sent back with Capt. WATERS and a good many others to the wagons at Newton county site of Catawba county, 25 miles from Taylorsville. Got there at sundown. 2.....Warm and pleasant. Tree putting out green. 3....Went after forage. Me and Driggers got good dinner and enjoyed the ladies talk. They insisted on us coming to their church the next Sunday, but our clothes would not admit __ __. 4.....We started for Batey's Ford in Lincoln county, on the Catawba river and got there before sundown. 5.....Had preaching in camps by Parson WHITTLE. Some of the boys went fishing and caught several. THOMAS CAMP came to camp and several of the boys that were left at Newton. 6....CALLOWAY and HINTON went fishing, but caught none. 7.....______caught none. Capt. LEWIS and others came to us. Their horses gave out. A lot of us went in bathing. I had a bad spell and like to have died with something like cramp colic. 8.....Left Batey's Ford and went by Davidson College, on to where the railroad was torn up. We stopped at Granite Station and drew rations and forage, and camped close by JACK GREER. Left for Newton, N. C. to wait on JOHN BRIDGES, who had been left there sick. Report said he would die. 9.....Drew oats, corn and rations. 10....We moved about one mile to get water at a spring and branch. GREER and BRIDGES came to camp. 11....Drew 2 days rations and forage, and drilled some, so as to fill orders to drill every day. 12....Commenced writing about the doing of people during the war times on yellow paper. 13....BRIDGES and CALLOWAY got letters from their wives that they were at Newton. Col. BRADFORD said he would sign a fulough for BRIDGES to go home. I wrote him one out to send up and one for CALLOWAY, and they started for Newton. 14....Drew rations and a party went to mill. 15....Rainy day. Lay in camps all day, and got some bread baked at a house and they charged 2 dollars for baking it. 16....Moved to Moore's turn out at head of railroad where the Iron rails were laid to. Me and DRIGGERS went to the country after dinner and got a good dinner. 17....Furlough came for DAY approved. 18....He started home, he and LAWSON of Co C and MOORE, of Co C. We got news that Gen. LEE had captured 27,000 prisoners, but I did not believe it- to good a thing. 19....We drew oats and rations. 20....A detail of men and horses to the command started over the mountain; all the able horses. 21....Major CLARK came to camps from Tennessee. I wrote a letter to send by him to my Dilsey gal. 22....Some of us went to still house to bathe in the pond, but did not have much effect on us. 23....A detail left Moore's Turn Out for home after horses; CLARK in command. 24....Capt. LEWIS got permission to go with another squad home after horses. Capt. WATERS got orders to get ready to go over the mountains next Monday. 25....The detail commenced fixing up to go home. They drew rations and commenced cooking. I wrote but passes for them to report in Atlanta to Major E. Y. CLARK. 26....Capt. LEWIS, ARMSTRONG, GREER, HENDERSON, GAY, SHADDOCKS, of Co B with others from other companies, started home. The order was for dismounted men. Several sold their horses or made sham sales to get to go home. Some sent their horses to citizens to keep for them until they got back. But such is human narture in war times, etc. 27....Capt. WATERS and Capt. DENSLOW went to Charlotte. 28....Me and Lieut MEADORS went to blacksmith shop to get our horses shod. Rained powerful in the evening. We got wet, but got out horses shod. 29....We started for Statesville at 12 o'clock. We went out 2- 1/2 miles and camped. Locust holloring all around and overhead. 30....We went on to Statesville and drew forage and rested and fed one mile out of town. Calloway and leach left us. We went on within 2- 1/2 miles of _____ and camped. 31....We stopped and fed at Olio on fodder, the locust yelling powerfully on ridges and across the river. We crossed the river close to the Yadkin Factory, 3 1/4 miles from Jonesville, in Rowan county, and camped close to factory on hill 58 miles from Moore's Turn out. To Be Continued. 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