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Mon 6 We commenced halling in our Oats & packing them in the
Oats Crib this is verry warm weather No rain verry dry indeed
Tu 7 Still a halling up our Oats William, Georges brother-
Oats in-law, set in to work at 45 Cents pr day
Wed 8 We finished halling up our Oats We had 14 Wagon loads 270 14 Oats bundles in each load making in all 1000 270 larg bundles 3780
Th 9 We mended up our Wagon gears breeching & hitched up 4
horses & halled Stocks to the Mill
Fr 10 We still halled up Stocks to the Mill
Sat 11 We halled Stocks to the Mill & all quit at dinner We
worked 3 yoke of Oxen in place of horses to day We have
halled 11 Stocks this week 1866 Augt ) No rain exceedingly dry William went to Maryanns this Sun 12 ) ---------------------- morning Martha Jane & Wm D. Mayes are there and sick Maryann ) Mon 13 The 2 Mr Rones was helping us hall up our Stocks to the Mill Stocks to get them sawed All our own forces were helping hall Jack W. D. Mayes ) Martha sick ) Patton also William came home W. D. Mayes is verry sick and
Martha & some of the children
Tu 14 We finished halling our Stocks to the Mill All hands that (17Stocks Mill worked yesterday worked to day Rones have halled(24Same Stocks the ) 41 Rone Rones) two last days & I last week with our own team halled I halled 11 11 Stocks which makes 28 Stocks in all Jack Patton worked 4
days halling Stocks Stocks in all 51 -------------------------
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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
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Tu 21 I got the 3 Cags of Nales sent to me by W. J. Porter
100 lbs in each Met Porter Col paid the Carrage $2.75
Nales I was trying to fix the fence around the Crib
Wed 22 We fixed the Crib yard fence strong & good & halled up some
Crib ) punchens from the Mill & halled some wood Yard ) Th 23 I went with Rich & Red to the Cedars took the Wagon & cut Cedar ) Posts ) & halled one load of posts 19 posts
Fr 24 I hired three hands Johnson Cockran & Whitaker Col to
Johnson &) help get posts We halled home two loads 20 each load We Cochran ) cut a good many & split them The wagons under Mats directions Cedar posts have got all the lying down Cedars off my land amounting to
many thousands of rales & posts & picketing. There are no posts
left only to cut the large trees and split them up for posts
Mat I stayed in the Cedars the last 2 days & came home tired &
broke down & mutch discouraged at Mats conduct.
Sat 25 Richard & Red & Plim has gone after more posts with the Wagon
Cedar posts I went to Town in the evening got Plim & Felix a shirt a piece
all cost $.75 & $.37 Cents The Black Mare took the Cholic this
Black Mare morning got better I rode her to Town in the evening She Martha Mary got worse I rode her home She was sick all night Maryann
& Harmon was in Town Wm Mayes & Martha is at Summer Town, Jane ) Crofford) & Sister Jane is at Cusas Springs 1866 Augt The morning is a little cloudy & quite cool We got now to Sun 26 Posts Cedar this time 80 new Cedar posts last week & 150 some time ago
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making in all 230 posts the old ones wont all do --------------------- It commenced raining slowly last night about dark & has Mon 27 rained all night & still a raining at 9 oclock to day A
Rain verry pretty rain & I think will raise the Watters It has
come too late to help the Corn, it may help Cotton Turnips
Saw ) & the Grass the grass is nearly all dryed up The Saw Mill Mill ) Stopt ) has been stopt a week the pawn nearly all gone. The boys
took the horses to Town to get them shod did not get it done turnips No work done Our turnips have come up ----------------- It has rained slowly all day yesterday & all night last Tu 28 night & is still drissling rain this morning Wm Kearnal
rain came & stayed all night last night I got a dispatch last ( Kernel ) night to go with Genl Bates to Huntsville upon W. J. Porter ( business
Wed 29 I leave this morning for Huntsville
I went to Town & was disappointed in going to Huntsville Genl
B ates did not come & I did not go I Got my cirtificate to
Vote from Coner the register. Soon altercation but all settled
without a fuss. Richd & Red is pretending to pull a little foder.
Th 30 I have rode all over my farm. A tolerable good Crop, Cotton
fine, & Corn pretty good While I was out word was brought
from Town by Jack that Genl Bates would be with the train going
to Huntsville & wanted me to go with him I never got the word
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until to late & Genl Bates never came
I went to Town after dinner William got 2 Canvass hams
Hams of ) brought them home Jo Mitchel came & stayed all night with us Bacon ) I sent 2 1/2 bushels Wheat to Nicholson Mill to day Cant git it
until Monday (took this Friday evening ) 1866 Fr 31 The morning was cloudy & sprinkling rain Verry warm, Wind Augt from the South West. We are fixing at our Crib lott fence We Washs rails got 33 railes of Washs make (poplar) to day to repair the Crib
lott fence. We are doing but verry little of any thing. ---------------------- The weather is verry warm & wind from S. W. - I went to Town Sat 1st ) Sept. ) in the evening Saw Maryann & Martha Jane in Town She (Martha)
Martha Jane has got well tho her little children some of them not verry
well Wm D. Mays has gone back to Oxford. I got some Camphor,
lodnum &c. The Collery has broken out verry bad in Nashville
& other places Sister Jane [Bot?] Looney & family has returned
from the Springs. The Colery is bad in Memphis & in most of
the Towns S. & West. ----------------------- The weather is verry warm & sultry Wind from the South & Sun 2d West The Court in Session Will take up the State Docket
tomorrow.
Mon 3 I went to the Cedars halled 2 loads of posts hired Smith
& Cochran to cut posts to day at $.75 per day. Red helped Williford cut & split posts to day Sam Williford & 3 horses stayed to night