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 Library in Wartburg, Tennessee with a collection of old papers and is on file at 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 band of robbers 2 men one said his name was Cross and the other said his name was Newport and said that they lived on Brimstone and said that they was soldiers from Kingston and was going to Watsburg there was one boy and five women with them and I knowed one of the men well and his name was not Cross nor Newport his name was William Mabery they pilched in my house and robbed divers of 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 Shirts one shirt that belonged to the blackman that is dead one quilt and one Sheet fore of the black girls dresses and her cumfert fore of the black childs shirts one pare of the black girls stockens and divers of other things that is two tedics to mention All 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 midlens Seven hams and Six sholders and fore jaws Some meal had the black girl bake them some bread and drank up all the milk and took some corn and one Jar of cream. & nbsp; ............author unknown Return to MILITARY INFORMATION Return to MORGAN COUNTY Home Page
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