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Smoke house broke / Guard / Black Mule Stole / Turkey & chicks stole / took apples / George horse / Robed / Wm Boots / Wm Maurey guard / Genl A.J. Smith / Robed Suckey / the Town robed / all all taken

of the gard fire, went in and took our Meat out of the
Smoke house, 8 midlings & 4 hams & 4 shoulders, & a Gard
was placed at the stable doors (hen house) & the doors fastened
with a chane & steaple, the steaple was drawn & Black Mule
gone in the morning. The gards also stole the old Gobler &
several chickens and cooked them at the gard fire. Went into
the apple house & took the apples after day light. We found our
George horse that was taken som ten days ago, he has been
turned over to the government & branded, he was very lame
Three Yankeys came into the yard and took from Saul Williams
boots. Considerable fuss. I went to Town and got a gard to protect
us, his name is William Maurey, he came from Wisconsin, belong
to Genl A. J. Smith Command, he has done his duty, & I am sorry
he is called in tomorrow to go on to the front. They robed old
Suckey of her money and several others of the blacks. There was
said to be about the one half of the houses in Town & surrounding
Country robed last night. Greate distress among the Citizens
through where the armey goes, they last night took all my Corn
& what little Oats I have, alas, all all. Burned fences.

1864 Decr 25 Sund
Our guard we had yesterday had to leave this morning. I went to
Town verry early I got another Guard (Kibben) got back at 10
oclock, the Soldiers were killing the sheap & chickens. The guard
I brought was not sufficient to stop their depredations, they
went on like mad men all over the plantation. I went again back to Town