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Gold Spectales gone / 30 years / Sheep & hogs killed / William unwell / Gen Quarls Capt Shoat & John / Genl Quarles & John

& got 2 more making 3 guards, & when they all got together
we efected a stop to there theiving course for the time being
I got hom late in the evenin time to put a partial stop to
there mad carear. Mr. James, the Silver smiths house was broke
open & amongst many things my Gould Spectables were taken. O
how I regret the loss of them they have been my Companion by
day & night for 20 years. I regret the loss but the devotion
I have for them was worth Ten times there value to me
After I returned home in the evening the soldiers shot &
killed 2 sheep. I got one & half, the other they shot & killed
3 shoats. We got after them & saved all three of them -
William is quite unwell this evening he threw off his dinner
he has fatigued himself day & night until he is quite unwell --
The boy John that was here wating on Capt Shoat is here, he
left with Capt. Shoat last Monday & has returned, he says he
belongs to Genl Quarls who is wounded & now a prisoner, and dont
know what to do, he appears unwilling to go with the Fedrels,
& asks me the priviledge of remaining here for the present. He
was unwilling to go down South to L.A. with Capt. Shoat for fear he
might never git back, he seemed to be quite uneasy until I give him
liberty to stay. Genl Quarles he says, lives near Clarksville,
& he is unwilling to be carried South

1864 Mon 26 Decr / rain
This morning is some cloudy after raining off & on the most of
the day yesterday. We have no been quite so such disturbed
this morning as yesterday. One fellow only in the Corn Crib, he