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/ Capt Kinamore / Wood /
but it will be a long time. It has rained nearly all day. We understand the troops on the Mt Pleasant rode have moved on to the South yesterday. Grant Kinamore is sent on to Calcolm to guard it. We are hard run to get wood for our fires

1865 Jany Sun 22nd
Weather / Coons / Negroes frolicked stealing &c / Guard J. P. Crider / John Genl Quarles / A. O. Williams

It drisaled rain nearly all night and has every appearence of rain this morning Wind S. E. and Warm. The boys caught 2 racoons this morning in the woods lott There appears to be a greate many negroes of one sort & another all round and through the lotts & kitchens they frolicked nearly all night last night They are stealing & taking every thing they can get. (They, many of them) seems much like starved. Our Guard, J. P. Crider of the Col Bloodgets regt is still with us and appears to be verry well satisfied. The boy John that was waiting on Capt. Short is here yet. He is getting well, he belongs to Genl Quarles. It has been a dark cloudy day & raining a little all evening. A.O. Williams came for supper, turning cold

Mon 23
/ Soldiers trying to kill hogs /
The wind is N. the ground 3 or 4 Inches deep with snow & cold & freezing. We have but little or no wood There is but little news After two soldiers from a wagon train followed a sow & pigs to the Crib and was trying to kill them William & the Gard stopt them they went on mad. We have been getting wood to day, it has been cold & cloudy all day.

Tues 24
/ Weather Cold /
The Wind from the North and verry cold every thing is frose up and verry cloudy, as cold as any day this year too cold to