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Wed 15 We are doing but little trying to get wood & making rails

Thomas Thomas Got my Wagon to go after Basket timber
Wagon
Th 16 Red & Rich is trying to make rales but doing but verry little

Fri 17 Verry hot we are doing nothing of any consequence dug out

a trough to beat apples in to make Cider & split some rails.

Dolla Patton has been working with me a part of last week &

this settled up with him

Sat 18 I went to Town came back at dinner Hamon came with me

Hamon he went to Jim Thomass & got two shot guns & took them home

Saw Mill ) with him. I went out to the Saw Mill & stopt the sawing The
Stopt the )
Mill from ) Watter in the pawn is nearly all dryed up & the proprietors
Sawing )
------------------ has not treated me right & [I] thought it right to say quit

Cider for the present & they have quit We made a little Cider &

divided it out.

Sun 19 Wm & Mag has taken there usual ride of Sunday. It has rained
Wm & Mag
Rain a shower not a season it will help the ground is so verry dry
1866
Augt ) The morning is clear the Ground a little damp The sound of
Mon 20)
the Car & other noises are distinctly heard at a distance. I

Col Small ) maled a letter to Col. Small Chief Commisary of Subsistance
Chief )
Commisary ) Genl Thomass head quarters Nashville to learn the name of
Nashville )
Genl Croxton Genl A. J. Smith & Genl Scoffield commisarys

Turnip seed ) & quarter masters. Went to Town & I got some Turnip seed &
Sowed )
sowed it in rows in the Garden