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/ Conscripts / Negroes / Battery of Cobbs / About the Oley & Gray fillies & Lieutenant Powers /
See old Book of Sun 29 /
every one thay can fource into Service. There have many men
left Maury County & particularly the Towns, to parts unknown.
Some have gone to the Fedrels, & others dodging any way to keep
out of the Conscripts, greate many have gone to Nashville with
the Fedrels, hundreds and thousands of Negroes have went off
with the Fedrels when they left here the last days of November
Men Women & Children, from Maury & Giles counties. The conscript
takes all between the ages of 18 & 45, they having imployed
substitutes is no excuse for the Southern Confederacy, & all
between 16 & 18 and 45 & 50 years of age are to be conscripted.
Powers, Lieutenant in Cobs battery was here to day, eat his dinner
(that campted near our spring says) that Cobs give orders to
take the Oley filly & the Gray Hilda & after they were captured
said he would send them home and capture others that were not
worth so much, as they were thorough breed, he would keep them
& furnish others to the government, William got back Hilder &
made a present of the Oley filla to Lieutenant Johnson on Conl
Warthals Staff, Powers was Lieutenant in Cobbs battery I learn.

1864 Decr 17 Sat 17 / 2 Soldiers / a fight
It was verry warm all night commenced rain about 3 or 4 Oclock
in the night. It has rained on yet 10 Oclock, two soldiers came
in & says that Genl Warthels battery of 12 guns with there horses
& amunition Wagons & some men were captured yesterday near
Nashville & that the Southern army had fallen back. Fedrel loss

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