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is dark & hazy. Sun is discovered through a cloud of Mist & Smoke, has the same unusual appearance that it has had for several days. Continued dark all day like it was in the morning

July Th 16 Will Henry got home from Thos L Porters about 12 oclock says the Fedrels was at the Websters yesterday took there stock of horses mules & negroes as well as Thomass mules & horses & Maryanns Mules horses & negroes & said he learned they were fighting down in Lawrence County within Biffles Cavalry yesterday evening Thomas L. Porter mules & stock are not taken but Maryanns Many of them are gone .

[along left margin of entry:] Maryann & me following Col. Monrow F. 17
About 2 oclock Mary & her son Willis came in some trouble Had been following the Yankeys for 2 days left them in Bigbyville We left my house 3 ½ oclock in the evening got on there track at James Canon folowed on through Calaoca & on to near Mooresville We left there train & turned off & stayed all night at William Holts. Left the next morning got a head of them & entersect them in Mooresville. Mary stayed at that place & I went on to Cornersville We got the boy Tom two mules & the sorrel Carrage horse got a recpt from the quartermaster for $1400 for to pay for the (1863 July 18) Mules & horses that we did not git I came back to Mooresville found Mary at Ashly Moores left here there until morning & I