McLeod Diary

McLeod, William (1836-1925)

State Archives of Florida, Collection M97-20

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On inside cover: William McLeod Dalton, Ga. Co. B, 7th Florida Volunteers Army of Tennessee Pg. 1 June the 12, '64 Co. (B) 7 Fla. The day is dark and rainy and the pickets are fighting in our front and we are lying in the ditches waitin the movement of the enemy and God only knows what tomorrow may bring forth. Pg. 2 July 1 On the 12 of ____________ we lay up and I cooked a pot of peas and we could hear our skirmishers shooting at the river & I got some postage stamps & I heard from George Cason, cousins, & ___________________. 13 I wrote one letter to G.W. Hendry & one to J______ Cason & one to Daniel Gillett & I had another pot of peas for dinner & our skirmishers yet at the river a fighting in the evening. Pg. 3 July 2 (Page too faded to read) Pg.4 3 July (Page too faded except 3 or 4 lines at bottom of page) but we ___________________there but next day we got the same order & we got ready Pg. 5 July 4 & on the 18 we left & moved on the right some 4 or 5 miles & lay about & I got a letter from A.C. Preston & at night we went to work on breast works & worked all night & on the 19 we finished our works by 12 oclock & then we got orders to pack up & be ready to move at a moments notice & our piqets (sp. s/b pickets) were sent out & a detail made to work on Pg 6. 5 July ______________ breast works & we hear that Gen. Johnston had quit the army & it seemed to have a bad effect among the troops. In the evening we got orders to pack up & be ready to fall in line in a moment & accordingly we done so & in a few moments we were in lines, the reason unknown to us. But I had my opinion & we were ordered to right face & we marched off & we Pg. 7 July 6 never got far before we found out we had started to the front and another charge was to be made & the Yankees had crossed Peach Tree Creek and we had to charge them and drive back. We got about a mile and the Yanks fell back before we got the chance to charge them and we were ordered back to our breast works. And we went back and took a good night Pg. 8 7 July rest and on the 20 I had a mess of peas for breakfast and about 9 oclock we were ordered to pack up and fall in lines. Some thought it was to give way on the left a little, and I started with my stakes to stretch my blanket with and we kep a going up the workes for some mile and a half or not so far and I threw down my stakes and went a little futher and we heard it was another charge and we stoped Pg. 9 July 8 and we were ordered to fill up our canteens and then we were ordered to take 20 extra rounds of cartridges and then we all new it was a charge & we were ordered to cross the Breast workes & we done so & we were ordered to forward & we started & in this time it was 10 or 11 oclock & a mity hot day & we went on awhile & we stoped & threw out our skirmishers Pg. 10 9 July we followed them & we marched on in line of battle & then we would march in column awhile & we kept up at such as that all day & the fighting was going on terrible on our left & it raged all day & we never got to charge the Yankees only our skirmishers & we got one man killed out of the Regt & 7 wounded & our Col. Comdg. Brige (sp.) was drunk & he Pg. 11 July 10 was arrested (sp.) & we got back to our Breast workes a little after night the worst ___________ men you ever saw & we drew our Rations & we got a lot of tobacco & we lay down without eating or a part of us did & on the 21 we were up before day light and a marching to the Right again & we moved up some 3 or 4 miles & was halted & turned back & we went back some 2 miles and was Pg. 12 11 July halted & put in Breast workes & we got to rest the _______________ night but we were exposed some what to the Balls from the Yankee piqets (sp.) & in the evening I was standing with my back to the enemy & a glancing ball hit me on my right heel. But it never broke the skin therefore it never hurt & at night it began to rain & about dark it slacked up & we left & we went Pg. 13 12 July through Atlanta about 8 or 9 oclock & we went on up on the extreme right & traviled (sp.) all night until about daylight & we stoped (sp.) & drew Rations & rested some 2 or 3 hours & we went on 2 or 3 miles further & we formed our line of Battle and that was 22nd & we had 2 lines & we marched in the second line that is the 7th & 4th Regiments was on reserve in behind the 6th & 3rd & our Col. Bullock Pg. 14 13 July made us a good speech in regard to going in a fight & about 10 oclock we were ordered to forward & we done so & we had Creeks & Branches to wade' & we pitched rite in like they were not their & I never got so hot in all my life. I liked to of failed & we went on some mile & we were stoped (sp.) & a courier told Gen. Bates their was a large waggon train about one thousand yards of us & the Pg. 15 July 14 Yankees knew nothing of our where abouts & was not expecting us their & we were in their rear on their left flank & that placed us all with the thoughts of capturing 5 or 600 waggons and their supplies & we pitched in & about 11 oclock we pitched in or the Yankees rather pitched in to us for we had the worst place to get through I ever saw & I regt Pg. 16 15 July got divided & I was on the right end of it and that end went further on the right so that part never suffered as much as the left of the Regt did but we got scattered so bad until we done nothing & the Yanks they just fusilalled in with their camps & small armes & we had to back rite off but our loss was so heavy until we would not try them again so we lay their Pg. 17 July 16 to see if they would try us until night or nearly so & they would not be we was led off a few hundred yards & lay their all night & on the 23 we were a little to the left where Gen. Clelern (sp.) here fought them on the day before & we went to make breast workes and we got the best of the workes made & I went over the Battlefield that evening & late in Pg. 18 17 July the evening we left their & started back to Atlanta & we marched through the city after night that is our division did & the Yankees a throwing shells in the center of the city at that time & they kep it up all night & after we got through town we halted & all lay down & went to sleep & on the 24 we went a little further to the left & went to making Pg. 19 July 18 Breast workes again & worked all day & it was Sunday & that night about midnight the Yankee piqets charged some of our piqets (sic) but got repulsed & you never heard such a noise in your life for 2 or 3 hours & on the 25 we completed our workes & commenced on a fort & worked till night & on the 26 we worked on the fort & I wrote Wash Hendry a Pg. 20 19 July letter & on the 27 we worked on the fort until in the evening & we got orders to draw 60 roundes of Cartridges & it rained & we never drew the cartridges & we never had to leave our workes but we were under orders to keep packed up until sometime after night when we got orders to go to sleep & we all lay down & went to sleep & on the Pg. 21 July 20 28 we got orders to have our election in our Co. for 2nd lieutenant F.J. Seward & myself were the candidates & it come off & I got the majority of 5 votes & we were ordered to pack up again and we drew 2 pairs of shoes on the 27 W.H. Shepherd got one pair & W. P. Rodgers the other & we are now expecting to march off every moment & our forces charged the Yankees & was repulsed & our men Pg. 22 21 July tried them again & drove them in our front or that is what I hear now & our men drove them back apeace & stoped & our loss was heavy & we went around to reenforce them & then we were ordered back to our ditches & we went back & went to bed or lay down & went to sleep & on the 29 we lay up all day & I went before the Board of examiners & was examined & the Board give me a few __________________ to study & on the Pg. 23 July 22 30 I wrote J.R. Dean a letter in the morning 31st inowed out on reserve to rest & it rained & we never [got] our camp ground more than selected before we got orders to move on the extreme left & we started & went a half mile & was turned back & we went back to our camp & staid all night & on the 1st of August was Monday & we started & went down on the extreme left & it a raining & we got Pg. 24 August 1 & 2 their a little before night & we went to maken Breast workes & worke until eleven oclock at night & we quit til mornin & on the 2 we rose early & went to work again & worked on a while & we got orders to stop & we quit & we got orders to move back on the right again so we left that place. It was near East Point & we come back near Atlanta again & staid all that evening Pg. 25 August & all night & on the 3 very early in the morning the Yankees began to shell us. We were on reserve & we got our Colonel wounded slightly & W. Smith wounded & we were moved from their on the left a mile or so & we were kept moving backwards & forwards all the evening & it was a rainey evening & we got to rest all night until just before day. We were moved in on the front & Pg. 26 August went to work on the breast works on the 3 their was hard fighting along the lines so we hear & in our front the Yankees run in our piqets (sic) and report say some of them was captured & on the 4 we went in on the front & drew tools & went to work on the ditches & we got them done by 12 oclock & in the evening our Regt went out to charge the Yankees or we thought tho it Pg. 27 August turned out to be only a support for the piqets of Bakers Brigade & we staid out until after night & the piqets were not charged & we come back without a fight & then we were moved back on the same ground we lay on the night before & on the 5 on Fryday we were ordered in on the front where the rest of our Brigade were & their we had to work all day for Pg. 28 August the Yankees charged Gibson's piqets & drove them in & I & others thought we would have to charge them back but it was given out & we moved apart of our piqet line & that night our whole Brigade were put on piqet & we worked on our piqet line all night & the Yanks a shooting at us every now & then not more than 2 hundred yards but none of us got hurt & on the Pg. 29 August 6 we had to ly in our ditches pretty closely & I fired my firs gun on piqet & I shot several times during the day & in the after noon it began to sprinkle of rain & just before night it rained very hard & we lay on piqet all night in the rain & we drew 6 pr Drawers, 5 shirts, 1 pr pants, 2 pr shoes, & on the 7 we left the piqet line only a few men at each post & about 8 or 9 oclock the Yanks Pg. 30 August flanked our piqets and they had to run to get out and 2 men never got out and the rest of us moved out and went to work on the ditches and worked all day and a part of the night and then we all lay down and slep until morning on the 8 and the whole Regment went out on piqet & we shot as much as we wanted to and we were on _____________ til next morning on the 9 we were (last two lines illegible) Pg. 31 August quit off about 11 or 12 oclock & it was a calm time. We thought the Yanks were a going to charge us but they quit shooting & in the evening they cannonaded very heavy but they never done no harm & at night we went on piqet & on the 19 we were on piqet all day & was relieved & we come back to camp & on the Pg. 32 August 20 it rained & we done nothing & on 21st it rained & we lay up all day. 22 it faired off & it was a pretty day & we had to furnish piqet again & on the 23 we come often piqet & all was still on the 24 all was quiet & on the 25 we worked on our muster rolls all day & on the 26 we finished our Rolls & went on piqet again & all night the Yankees Pg. 33 August were a moveing back. I never heard so much noise. It was kep up all night & a rite smart of cannonading all night & it had rained tremendous in the evening & on the 27 we were up before day at 3 oclock & sot up until Day & after day awhile we were order to pack up & be ready to move at a moments notice for it was thought the enemy were falling back & we staid all day & on the Pg. 34 Aug 28 we staid until evening & Gen. Stephenson Division taken our place & we left & marched on to East Point & then it was dark & from their we went to Rough & Ready after dark & staid all night & on the 29 we went to maken breast works & got them done & just as we got them done we were ordered to move & we went on to a Pg. 35 Aug Church called Church hill Church & we went to maken breast works again & worked all night & on the 30 we finished them off & then we were ordered to move again & be ready at sun set & we started at sun set & marched all night & just before day we liked to of run in the Yankee lines. They fired in our advanced guard & it was Pg. 36 Aug turned back & just at day light we went in to Jones borough on the 31 & by sun rise the Yankees were a shooting at us & we went to bilding breast workes & about eleven oclock we were ordered to charge them & we were under a verry heavy fire where we were & we had to rise out to form our line in a ravine some 40 or 50 yards in Pg. 37 Aug our rear & that was a dangerous a place as could be for 3 cannon Balls come through our ditch So we formed our line & lay their a while & it was as hot a day as I ever saw[,] I thought[,] & I lay down & went to sleep & I woke up with the worst pain in my head I ever had & I had give out ahead of them & I went back to the Pg. 38 Aug rear & lay down in a shade & I had lay their more than 10 or 15 minute before they started on the charge & I never went & in a few minets the guns began to pop away & the cannon a roaring about nite & our men went up pretty close the Yankee works & they began to pore in to our men so thick until they had to fall back Pg. 39 Sept & 3 of our men were wounded & the Capt & 3 men surrendered & 2 come out unhurt & they racied & went back to our works and in this time it was night & on the 1st of September was Thursday & we lay in our workes all day & at night we had to march up & down the lines until nearly day & then we marched off 4 miles & in this time it was day & on the Pg. 40 Sept 2 we went to making breast workes & worked all day until night & we lay down & took our nights sleep for the firs in several & it rained & on the 3 we were releaved & went down the rail Road 5 miles to meat a Raid & got their Just at night & I went out on piqet duty. The 4 I was releaved & went back to camp & we had rosten ears and peanuts Pg. 41 Sept & fresh pork lots of it & we lay up all day & we had preaching in camp & on the 5 we had orders to go back to the front & we started back & John Underhill & U.R. Durrence deserted & it was a hot day & we got to our journeys end & struck camp & on the 6 we cleaned up our camp ground & it rained & the Yankees fell back & on the 7 I went off & Pg. 42 Sept washed my clothes & come back & dried them by a fire & on the 8 we moved back to Jones Borough & cleaned up our camp ground & I wrote D.W. Gillett a letter & on the 9 I wrote S.D.J. Johnson a letter & drew one pair of shoes for Carlton & one pair for W. Whidden & on the 10 we lay up in camps all day & on the 11 we done the same &, on the 12 I went out on picket & on the Pg. 43 Sept 13 I got 2 letters from Miss M. Knoles & one from Miss S.E. Dukes & one from Miss S. A. M. Pinksontn & I wrote a letter to Miss M. Knoles & one to miss S.E. Dukes & was releaved & went back to camp & nothing transpired from then until on Sunday the 18 we got orders to pack up for a march & be ready but on the 16 we had a Division review & on the Pg. 44 Sept 17 we had a corps Review & I was then sertin we would leave in a few days & we were ready on Sunday & Sunday night about 11 oclock we left & marched all night & on the 19 we marched all day & till night we struck the West Point R.R. near a station called Telmetta & we lay down & went to sleep & about midnight we had to get up & move Pg. 45 Sept back a few hundred yards & went to sleep again & on the 20 we went to bilding breast workes & worked all day & till midnight & quit & on the 21 we worked again until 11 or 12 oclock we got orders to quit & we moved on our right a half mile & went to work again & it a raining & we worked until we got the breast workes done & then we cleaned up our ground nice Pg. 46 Sept & on the 26 ______ Jeff Davis came around to see us & we were paid off while we were their & on the 28 at night Gen. Hardee made a speach for us & said he was going to leave us & on the 29 we left that camp & moved in the direction of Alabamah & went through Talmetta & went to the Chattahoochee & across that Pg. 47 Oct day & camped & on the 30 we marched up the river all day & went about 10 or 12 miles & camped & it rained hard & on the 1st of October was on Saturday we marched about 8 or 10 miles that day at Vin Zants Store & staid there all night & all day on 2 till near night & went 3 or 4 miles & camped & staid all night & on the 3 we went 7 or 8 miles & camped before Pg. 48 Oct & it rained as hard as I ever saw it rain Just before we stoped & we pitched our camp & staid all night & it rained & our ration was short & on the 4 we went to maken breast works & got them done by night 5th & we drew a plenty of rations again & all was rite once more & on the 6 we were ordered to leave at day light & it was raining & we marched 7 or 8 miles through the rain & Pg. 49 Oct it was as bad a days march as I ever made I think & we camped all night & on the 7 was a fair day & we marched 18 or 20 miles & camped & it turned cool & on the 8 we marched about 10 or 12 miles & went over the mountain & into Cedar Valley & went to Cedar town that day & camped all night & on the 8 we left that camp about 1 or 2 oclock & marched that evening & night Pg. 50 Oct 8 or 10 miles & went to Cove Springs & camped their was a nice little town & we staid all night & on the 10 we left that camp & their was a rite smart frost & on the 9 was a cold frosty morning & we got to Tallapoosee river by 12 or 1 oclock but crossed Cellur creek in the morning & when we got to Tallapoosee river we rested a little while & then crossed over the river. Pg. 51 Oct it was the Coosy river & went 3 or 4 miles & camped & staid all night & on the 11 we made a long march & camped after we crossed the armuchie river & the Yankees fired at us but done no damage & on the 12 we made a long march & got in 15 miles of dalton & camped & on the 13 we left our camps by daylight now to take dalton & we marched around in the rear of dalton Pg. 52 Oct & got their by 12 or 1 oclock & we went in the gap & the Yankees were forted in the gap & we surrounded it & demanded a surrender & sent in a flg of truce & it was not respected & we sent the 2nd & the 3rd & we opened on the fort with artilery & killed 4 dead & wounded 6 or 8 more & then it was surrendered & we got 40 men out of it & dalton was surrendered without the fireing of a gun. Pg. 53 Oct & their we got 1000 prisoners negroes 700 & whites 300 & then we went to tareing up the rail road & tore it up until 10 or 11 oclock at night & we stoped & on the 14 we went to taring up the road again & worked at it until 12 oclock & got it tore up to tunnel hill nearby & then we left & went out in the direction of lafayette Pg. 54 Oct Ja A Johnson (written across top of page in a different script) & went 10 or 12 miles & camped & on the 15 we sent out pickets & lay up until 12 oclock & then started & went 3 or 4 miles & stoped & our Regt stoped on picket again & lay up until night & then marched 6 or 7 miles & camped & staid all night & on the 16 we started & went 4 miles & come to lafayett & went through town & went on 4 or 5 miles & camped again & staid all night (several pages missing from diary) Pg. 55 Oct SD Johnson (written in large, different script from that of William McLeod) in the place & it was a rainey night & we never slep much that night & on the 26 we marched about ____ miles & went in 1 ½ miles of Decator & camped & took one good night to sleep & on the 27 we lay up & on the 28 we went out on picket at night & worked on the picket line all night & on the 29 we were on picket outside Pg. 56 Oct town where we could see lots of Yankees & their forts & they would shoot at us & we at them & about one hour later we left our picket post one at a time until we all left & the Yanks a looking at us & we marched 7 or 8 miles & camped all night & on the 30 we marched about 18 miles & camped & went through a town Pg. 57 Oct called Courtland about 12 oclock that day & on the 31st we marched 16 miles & went through a town called tuscumbia on the tennessee River & camped all night & 1st of November was tuesday we were mustered for pay & lay up all day & we lay up at that camp until the seventh 7 & then we moved about 2 miles on Pg. 58 Nov the bank of the Tennessee River & camped their until on the 10 we were ordered to move & it rained while we were at that camp nearly all the time & we packed up & started & got about one hundred yards & the order was countermanded & we went back to camps & I wrote G.W. Hendry a letter & one James Cason Pg. 59 Nov & it faired off & it was rite cool day & on the 11 was a pretty day & we were ordered off & we started & went about one hundred yards & we were ordered back to our camp & we lay up all day & on the 12 we lay up all day & on the 13 we were ordered across the river of Tenn. & we went through a town Pg. 60 Nov called Florance [Alabama] & went a mile & camped for the night & on the 14 we commenced to fortify around Florance & we worked all day & finished the breast workes by night & it rained in the night & on the 15 was a cloudy ugly morning & I made a Ivery Pipe & on the 16 was an ugly & rainey day pretty much all day & on the Pg. 61 Nov 17 I worked on the Breast works a little it was a cloudy day & on the 18 we got orders to be ready to start on the next morning by day light & it commenced raining & at night the order was countermanded & on the 20 it was a raining & we got orders to be ready to leave on the next morning & it a raining & my mess got a good supply of Pg. 62 Nov of Pork & on the 20 it began to snow at the time we left & that was early in the morning but we moved off & went some 10 or 12 miles that day & camped & on the 22 we started & it began to snow & it snowed all day nearly & we marched 17 or 18 miles & camped & we all liked to of frozed before we Pg. 63 Nov got fires & on the 23 we left at sunrise & marched 15 or 16 miles & went through a little town called Wayesbourough [Waynesboro, Tennessee] & camped all night & on the 24 was a pretty morning tho rite cool & we marched 10 or 12 miles & camped & on the 25 we marched 12 or 14 miles & I was on waggon gard & we went in 6 or 8 miles of Pg. 64 Nov mount Pleasant [Mount Pleasant, Tennessee] & camped & on the 26 we went through Mount Pleasant & went in a mile or two of Columbia [Tennessee] but we marched 20 or 22 miles to get their & it rained all day & we marched a good pike road all the time & the Yankees was in the town & we could not go in but we camped for the night & on Pg. 65 Nov 27 we marched a mile & struck camp & we could hear our pickets a shooting all day & at night the Yankees vacuated the town & we got the news the next morning & on the 28 was a cloudy ugly morning & we got news the Yankees had all left Columbia [Tennessee] & on the 19 we marched off from their & went Pg. 66 Nov & went around in their rair & went to a little town called the Spring hill [Tennessee] & formed our line & their was a rite smart fight & the Yankees left & we staid all night & on the 30 we left their & went on to franklin [below Nashville, Tennessee] & their was a bloody fight & Sam Handcock was killed & I give out that day & had to be halled in an ambulance Pg. 67 Dec the fight lasted from two hours by sun until midnight & the Yanks left their & on the 1 of December was Thursday we lay up all day at franklin [Tennessee] & on the 2 we left & went to a little place called trynne [Triune] & camped & on the 3 we left their & went in 6 miles of murfresborough [Murfreesboro] & camped & I got my supper at a mans house by Pg. 68 Dec the name of Barkers & on the 4 we marched 3 or 4 miles & struck the Rail Road & their was a block house & we began to shoot at it with the cannon & they reinforced it from murfresborough & we went to them & they on to us & we began to fight & we fought them 3 or 4 hours & we had to fall back & in this time it was night tho Pg. 69 Dec we lost heavy wounded but none killed dead their was none in the fight but 3 Regt of our Brigade & we marched 3 miles back on the pike road & camped & on the 5 we lay up all day until in the evening & we tore up the R R a little & went back to camps & lay their until near night & then marched Pg. 70 Dec back to the ground we had the fight on the day before and camped all night & on the 6 we went over the battlefield & went 2 or 3 miles futher towards Murfresborough [Murfreesboro] near Stone River [Stones River] & in site of the Yankees forts & they began to shell us & we stoped & went to fortifying & we staid their until night rite on Pg. 71 Dec the old battle ground of Murfresborough [Murfreesboro] that was fought in 1862 & we moved across the R R & fortified & staid all night & on the 7 we moved out & the Yankees followed us & we turned back & our Regtt went out on skirmish & we soon had to run in & the hole command run off & we could not (two blank pages) Pg. 72 Dec rally under a mile & we formed & fell back to Stewards Creek & camped all night & on the 8 we tore up the rail road all day and Gen. Bate give us a talk about running from the Yanks & we went back to our old camps & staid all night & on the 9 it began to sleet soon in the morning & it continued on Pg. 73 Dec all day and we went back to the railroad to work & it was so cold we had to stop & we went to a Station on the road called Smyrna [Tennessee] & camped all night & on the 10 we left their & went through a little town called (blank space) & went on 6 miles & camped all night & the ice on the ground was 2 to 3 inches thick & would bear up a horse Pg. 74 Dec & on the 11 we left their & went 4 miles towards Nshville & it was the coldest day ever I saw & the wind blew all the time in our faces & our Regt was on waggon guard & I was on the barefoot list & I camped near the railroad & in hearing of our pickets at Nashville & on the 12 I staid at my camp without Pg. 75 Dec rations & me & Durrence cook us some leather ho cakes & eat them & we left their & went to the ditches around Nashville & took the place where Browns men were & the left & on the 13 I got 6 letters & lay up all day in the ditches & on the 14 was the foggyest day I ever saw & the snow all melted & it Pg. 76 Dec was a wet time & on the 15 was hard fighting on our left & I drew 2 months pay $160.00 & went around & reenforced on the left & we got their after night & we commenced our breast works & worked all night & never got them finished tho we quit them & on the 16 at day the piqets commenced to fire & the Yanks was in 4 hundred Pg. 77 Dec Yards of us & our pickets come in & we had to lay low all day until evening the Yankee batteries was in 5 hundred yards of us & their was a good many of them & they shot our works all down & they advanced 2 lines of battle upon us & they come up in 3 or 4 hundred yards of us & all lay down & lay their until Pg. 78 Dec in the evening & it a raining & we on a high hill & their was a shot come through our works and shot off our adjutants head & wounded 2 more men & I had to leave the works & take to a tree in the rear & their I staid until the Yanks come & broke our lines & was coming over the hill & then we all had to run about 2 miles Pg. 79 Dec to get away & over a high mountain & we rallied at Breadwood Station [Brentwood Station] on the pike & R R about 4 miles from the place we started & the Capt. & W. Carlton, H C Surrency was missing & never come up & we went in 3 miles of Franklin [Tennessee] & camped all night & it a raining & all hands tired down & on the Pg. 80 Dec 17 we went through Franklin [Tennessee] & on to Spring Hill [Tennessee] & camped all night & I was on picket that night & on the 18 we left & went 3 or 4 miles & the Yankee cavalry come up & we stoped & fought them till evening & we left & went to a creek & crossed & cut down the bridge & we camped all night Pg. 81 Dec until evening & we moved out near Tuscumbia & camped all night & on the 29 we marched 17 or 18 miles & camped near Cherokee Station & on the 30 we marched 18 or 20 miles & camped at Iuka & at dark it commenced to rain & it rained & it rained some time & it turned _______ cold & it snowed Pg. 82 Jany 1865 the balance of the night & on the 31 it quit snowing & was a cold day & we marched 10 or 11 miles & camped near Burnville & on the first 1 day of January 1865 was Sunday & we marched 10 or 11 miles & went into Corrinth [Corinth, Mississippi] & went out some 2 miles & camped all night & on the 2 we lay up all day in camps & rested Pg. 83 Jany for the first days rest in a long time & on the 3 we had inspection & on the 4 I drew 2 months wages $160.00 & on 5 we got orders to have inspection again & orders to move again & we had inspection but the order to move was countermanded & we lay up until on the 9 in our camps & done nothing & on the 9 we drew our Pg. 84 money & on the 10 we left Corinth [Mississippi] to go to Tupelo [Mississippi] & marched 20 miles & camped near Boonville & on the 11 we marched 20 miles & camped at Guntown & on the 12 we marched 13 miles & got to Tupelo & then marched about 3 miles & camped & we made the march on the Rail Road & on the 13 we lay up all day. 14 we moved a mile Pg. 85 & went to winter quarters & on the 15 I was very unwell & reported sick & wrote a letter to Miss Nel gillen & nothing transpired of any importance until on the 20. That day I sent up my application for a furlough & on the 23 it came back approved & I went down to the depot & got my transportation & staid all night & on the Pg. 86 24 we lay up all day & all night & on the 25 I left Tupelo & traviled all day on the cars & went 20 or 25 miles & all night & got about 40 miles & on the 26 we got to Mariddle [Meridian, Mississippi] on 140 miles & staid all night 27 I went to Selma [Alabama] 110 miles & from their to Montgomry [Montgomery, Alabama] 110 miles from their to Columbus [Georgia] 96 miles & got there on the 29 and staid all night & on the Pg. 87 [writing stops ... rest of page and following 18 pages are blank] Writing on last few pages in diary ... Pg. 88 for Mother 125 coffee 50 2 balls polash 20 1 skirt Irish potatos 50 for David 1 Polash 10 1 Black spool thread 5 for Jane dipers and fork Pg. 89 July 11, 1864 (appears to be different handwriting) MESS Book W.W. Shepperd Bought 2 qts of Peas $2.00 2 or pts of Peas 2.75 1 qt Peas 1.00 2 qt peas 2.00 Pg. 90 January the 16, 1871 Quitman, Ga. Pg. 91 MESS for July 12 S.D. Johnson Bought 2 lbs of Bacon $5.00 6 lbs of Rice 3.00 L.M. Johns Madison C. H. Pg. 92 [blank] Pg. 93 Keen 2 26 66 McCauley 2 38 66 William 2 38 66 Brown 89 26 69 Brown 2 26 66 Hull 21 24 79 Durrence 4 48 66 McClellan 2 26 66 " " 2 26 66 Whidden 2 26 66 40 17 _____________ 280 40 ______________ 680 Pg. 94 Accounts George Boyett DT S.D. Johnson for one ______________ $8.00 Feb 15th 1864 Levy W. Cornelius DT S D Johnson $20.00 for loned money August 13th 1863 Wm J Hooker DT S.D. Johnson $20.00 for loned money March 18, 1864 F.J. Seward DT S.D. Johnson $10.00 April 3, 1864 Pg. 95 MESS Wm Brown Bought 6 ½ lbs of Rice $3.25 1 lb of Salt 1.00 J M Dean DT S D Johnson $10.00 for Pg. 96 [Last Page in Diary] S D Johnson DT W W Shepperd $25.25 for borrowed money S D Johnson DT W W Shepperd $12.00 This 21 1871 May J D Johnson Quitman S D Johnson J E S D Johnson