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/ Sick Soldier / Mary / verry bad of & has been ever since he came I think no worse Mary had a boy child this morning
Mon 5th / Margaret / Corn / Genl J C Brown / Soldiers / This morning is quite cool with frost We built a fire to kill some hogs but the wind changed to the South and we stopt & did not kill. In the evening it turned quite warm Margaret took Saul & went to Town in the evening She braught back but little news We halled a load of Corn gathered in the fields Genl J. C. Brown wounded in the leg & at Looneys. A greate many wounded Soldiers in Town & they have little to go on Complaining of there fair Many Soldiers passing all through the Country some wounded & some not, some fears the Fedrels are making there way back to Columbia & preperations are making to meet them & defend the fort.
[sideways left margin Our Mills are all pressed ever since the 25 Novr. Cant get meal one half our time]
Tues 6 / Harvel Horse / foundered / Genl Brown / W. H. Pillow died / prisoners / The weather has much moderated clear & calm We are trying to put up some fence in some places to keep the stock from going away & hunting through the fields to find Corn. A Mr Harvel & brother to the Mr Harvel a Soldier that left a foundered Gray horse here a week ago called & payed Anderson for taking care of him $10.00 in Confed Money he took the horse he said to his brother There was a wounded man Mayes living in Lawrence with him. I went to Majr Looneys & saw Genl Brown there wounded I went from there to Town W. H. Pillow died last night A M Harrison was released from arest. They are fighting all round Nashville this morning there are 1700 Fedrels
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/ Genl. / prisoners in Columbia & a number of captered Negroes Genl Nugley commands the post at Murphreysborough This is contradicted One Negro has Small pox that was captered
Wed 7 / Sick Soldier Shoot / It is quite warm & cloudy the wind is from the S. W. No particular news Our sick Soldier is mending he has had a verry bad time & suffered much from the burn
1864 December Wed 7 / Corn / Green / Maryann / Cold / Soldiers / We are still gathering Corn through the fields scatering about 2 lodes a day That is better saved than lost for we are doing nothing else. Green came home to day having been absent ever since the Southern troop came in he has not been with the Feds but at B Martins Maryann came in her Bugga braught us some flour in a bag I filled her bag with apples She went home through Town I went with her as far as Town did not get out of my bugga I could not gather any news only a greate Cry for provisions & Wood. It is turning cold verry fast the Wind is verry peircing & getting to the North The Town & Country is full of Wounded Soldiers who is running every direction for some thing to eat.
Th 8th / Killing our pork / This morning is verry cold ground froze hard Wind from the North We are trying to kill what few pork hogs that we have left The weights are as follows, 224, 233, 238, 287, 255, 270, 253, 185, 262, 312, 210, Stag 421 (12 hogs) making 3150 in all We killed 6 small ones 10 days ago but did not
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[sideways left margin Wed 11th Jany 1865] [column one We have put our pork that is left in our Seller throwed down loose. We have to day repacked it & salted it over in the Seller Croxtons men took over 500 lbs when they Campt in the yard took 8 Midlins & 8 hams & shoulders]
[column two weigh them. about 500 lbs Total to this time 3650 Genl Croxtons Men took 8 hams & shoulders and 8 Midlings of the above hogs all salted down]
Friday 9 / Saul / George Anderson / Saulted Meat / Snow It is extreamoy cold this Morning Cloudy & sleating a little, the Wind is from the North Saul is some better he has been sick for two Weeks some times better & then not so well George is better & gone to Col Pillows he has complained entirely of his back. Anderson sick for several days but better. We saulted up our Meat we killed yesterday. It has been snowing & sleating all day & still it snows the ground is covered over some 2 or 3 Inches deep at 12 oclock.
Sat 10 / Weather / Soldier Shoot / Anderson Gun This morning is cold the snow froze Cloudy, Wind N.W. Our sick Soldier is still mending No news for a day or two, the Southern troops are yet around Nashville
Doct Harris came on hunt of a Negro Woman broke open Puss house & took Anderson Gun This was done several nights ago No one knew it until it was done
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Reese Porter - 1744 - 1821 m Jeane Brown in England Soldier of the American Revolution - Settled in North Carolina Joseph - 1770 John - 1773 Reese - 1776 - 18 James B. 1779 David 1782 Elias 17[8?]3 - 18 Thomas C - 1787
William - 1769 - 1848 m. Jane Bradshaw - - 1826 migrated to Tennessee in 1808 to take up grant given Reese for services in Revolution Reese - 1794 - m. Mary Thomas John - 1788 n. Patsy Roberts - 12 children Huan - 1796 - m. Rachel Roberts Jane B. 1800 - m. Thos. C. Crawford
Soldier of War of 1812 ) ) Nimrod - 1792 - 1872 m. Dille Hamon - Inherited, by primo geniture, the grant of land. Kept a diary during Civil War. Estate laid waste by both armies Mary Anne - 1818 - 1868 m. William Webster Bradshaw Willie [??] [18??] - 1887 Nimrod Hamon - 1821 - 18[??] Mart[??] Jane - 1827 - Thomas LeRoy - 1834 - 1929 m. Fannie Webster Inherited landed estate, only son with heirs
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