CIVIL WAR DIARY MORGAN COUNTY, TENNESSEE The following is a transcript of a robbery diary of a resident of Morgan County, Tn.The original, handwritten copy was given to the Wartburg Libraryin Wartburg, Tennessee with a collection of old papers and is on fileat the library. Care was taken to reflect the original work.The author is unknown.
DECEMBER 1863* * * * * On the 12th day of December in the year 1863 at night, came a bandof robbers 2 men one said his name was Cross and the other saidhis name was Newport and said that they lived on Brimstone and saidthat they was soldiers from Kingston and was going to Watsburg therewas one boy and five women with them and I knowed one of the menwell and his name was not Cross nor Newport his name wasWilliam Mabery they pilched in my house and robbed diversof sundri articles.
| Bedquilts 8 or 9 | one pepper box |
| Sheets 2 Coverlids 1 blankets 2 pillers 6 bedticks 3 bed ruffles 2 pare nearly all the old womans cloths took all the cover where she was laying on the bed. Yarn flax and to thread twenty or thirty hanks one buntch of Swingle……….? plates 4 tin buckets 2 oven and lid 1 pothooks 1 Sheepshears 2 pare Buttons and wod screws 1 box and bucket one set of glass plates one pare of tooth pullers two pare of socks |
one pepper box one nutmeg gritter two pare Stockens one tin pan two bowls some spoons teacups and sassers two table cloths one shirt one pare of pintchers to draw nails one oare of mittens to wear on hands one Chaney pitcher one pare knitten needles one handsawfile black pepper and box sowen thread &/C Stilliards 1 pare one Satchelful of plunder one big coarse comb three pounds of raw cotton three towels |
………………..out of the kitchen…………………….one of the old black mans Shirtsone shirt that belonged to the blackman that is deadone quilt and one Sheetfore of the black girls dresses and her cumfertfore of the black childs shirtsone pare of the black girls stockensand divers of other things that is two tedics to mentionAll of her Shimeys but that she had on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Also on the 30th day at night came three men and robed me of my meat fore midlensSeven hams and Six sholders and fore jaws Some meal had the black girl bake them somebread and drank up all the milk and took some corn and one Jar of cream. …………author unknown