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 No. 2 
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 THE DIARY OF BARTLETT YANCEY 
 MALONE 
 
 ROVINCIAL AGENTS OF 
 PRTH CAROLINA 
 
 CHAPEL HILL 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 1919 
 
THE DIARY OF BARTLETT YANCEY 
 MALONE 
 
 EDITED BY 
 WILLIAM WHATLEY PIERSON, JR. 
 
Digitized by the Internet Archive 
 
 in 2012 with funding from 
 
 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil 
 
 http://archive.org/details/diaryofbartlettymalo 
 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
 
 The following is the diary of a North Carolina farmer, Bart- 
 lett Yancey Malone, who fought during the American War of 
 Secession from July, 1861, to November, 1863, when he was cap- 
 tured and made prisoner. He entered the Confederate Army at 
 the age of twenty-three as a private and rose to the rank of a 
 sergeant, being a member during his active service of the 6th 
 North Carolina Regiment. As he said, this regiment at the time 
 of his capture in battle on the Rappahannock River belonged to 
 "General Hooks (Hoke) brigard Early Division Ewels Corps 
 Leas Armey. ' ' As his story shows, Malone participated in most 
 of the great battles and campaigns in Virginia, Maryland and 
 Pennsylvania. After his capture, November 7, 1863, he was im- 
 prisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland, where he remained until 
 February 24th, 1865. 
 
 An inquiry as to the justification for the publication of this 
 document would be pertinent, for on a cursory reading it seems 
 little more than an extended weather report. Mr. Malone per- 
 formed no extraordinary feat of heroism, at least none such was 
 recorded ; he participated with individual distinction in no poli- 
 tical movement of importance ; he played no role which would 
 cause historians to single him out for particular notice. His 
 diary is reproduced here as a document of human interest which 
 reveals, with much quaintness of expression, the thoughts of a 
 simple soldier of the ranks — the thoughts, it is to be presumed, of 
 a mass of men, which have oftentimes been inarticulate. There 
 is a frankness about this diary that conveys inevitably, I believe, 
 the conviction of sincerity. And there is a lack of emotion — as 
 when in remarking on an event which, we are told, caused the sol- 
 diers great grief, the death of Stonewall Jackson, he merely said, 
 "And General Jackson died to-day, which is the 10th day of 
 May" — an absence of bitterness and of complaints which, con- 
 sidering the provocation of circumstances, make the diary of al- 
 most as much interest because of these omissions as because of 
 what is included. Perhaps the most conspicuously absent feature 
 
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 is that of any statement of the Southern cause for which he was 
 fighting. Not only does the writer refrain from criticism of the 
 North, but he omits to tell why he is fighting for the South. He 
 assumes the Southern cause tacitly and of course. Mr. Malone was 
 chiefly concerned with his job of being a soldier and, as there 
 was no passion nor rancor in his story, there was likewise no ex- 
 altation nor fervid declamation. He asserted no particular 
 knowledge of military events nor predicted the result of any en- 
 gagement. "What the result is to be is more than I no." He 
 did not seem to have been especially elated by victory, and he 
 was certainly not demoralized by defeat — not even that of 
 Gettysburg. He committed himself on rare occasions to expres- 
 sions which manifested a confidence in the ultimate outcome, as 
 after a successful battle he said: ""We whipt them like we aul- 
 ways do. ' ' He was unconsciously a brave man who took a sober 
 sort of joy in fighting. On one occasion, when alluding to a battle 
 of more than four hours in length, which began about three 
 o 'clock in the afternoon, he remarked : "we had a wright nice 
 time of it from then on tell dark." There is no notice taken of 
 the horrors of war, of bloody scenes which he must have witnessed 
 on the battlefield ; nor were there any complaints made of the 
 pains of the wounds he received. His attitude toward the enemy 
 was unemotional, almost indifferent. He sometimes referred to 
 the federal soldiers as "the Scamps," which, in view of the 
 heated controversies of the time, must certainly be regarded as a 
 mild term of reproach. It is true that he designated General 
 Benjamin F. Butler as the "Yankee beast," but that was an ex- 
 pression then so current in the South as to be conventional so far 
 as Butler was concerned. Having done with these negative, 
 though very significant, aspects, it might be said that, judging 
 from the diary, Malone was chiefly thinking — possibly from a 
 farmer's habit — of the weather with its attendant pleasures and 
 discomforts and about food. 
 
 One persistent habit of Malone was to record the texts of 
 sermons which he heard, together with references to their biblical 
 rources. This practice, in addition to revealing some interesting 
 evidence as to the nature of Civil War sermons, will remind some 
 
The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone 7 
 
 readers of the time when it was considered a cardinal sin to be 
 unable to quote and cite the preacher's text. Religion affected 
 him in this way not only, but it influenced his poetry. 
 
 That part of the diary which describes Malone 's experience 
 as a prisoner at Point Lookout is, I think, an important and valu- 
 able addition to the limited, first-hand material dealing with 
 Southerners in Northern prisons. It was when writing his reflec- 
 tions on prison life that the first note of despair comes into his 
 journals. His criticism of the treatment of prisoners there may 
 be summarized under four heads : First, there was not food 
 enough. ' ' Our rations at Point Lookout was 5 crackers and a 
 cup of coffee for Breakfast. And for dinner a small ration of 
 meat 2 crackers three potatoes and a cup of soup. Sugar we 
 have non. " Later he described the food supplied by saying, 
 ' ' Our Rations gets no better we get half a loaf of bread a day a 
 smal slice of Pork or Beef or Sault Beef for Breakfast for dinner 
 a cup of Been Soup and Supper we get non. ' ' Coffee and sugar, 
 which last commodity had for a time been supplied, had 
 been taken away. At one time his friends caught, cooked and 
 ate a rat. Secondly, he wrote of the poor protection against the 
 cold afforded the prisoners. Many had to sleep on the ground 
 with only one blanket. "All the wood we get at Point Lookout 
 is one sholder tirn of pine brush every other day for a tent. 16 
 men to every tent. ' ' He recorded that five men froze to death on 
 one night. Thirdly, he mentioned the frequent shooting of pris- 
 oners by the guards for trivial reasons. At one time he states 
 that a prisoner was shot and killed by the guard "for no reason 
 attall. " Fourthly, he rather bitterly resented the placing of 
 negroes as guards over him. 
 
 It will seem strange to some that the writer of this diary 
 should have spelled General Lee's name, which undoubtedly was 
 very familiar to him, as "Lea." This spelling of the famous 
 name may be explained by the fact, of which I have been in- 
 formed, that in Caswell County there were a number of people 
 who spelled their name "Lea," as, indeed, did an officer of 
 Malone 's regiment. This and other orthographic curiosities must 
 
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 be considered in the light of the fact that he was a graduate of 
 the "corn field and tobacco patch" university. 
 
 No serious editing has been undertaken. Outside of an oc- 
 casional attempt to indicate in some cases the accurate form of 
 certain proper names and places, the diary has been allowed to 
 stand without comment as written. 
 
 William Whatley Pierson, Jr. 
 Chapel Hill, N. 0., March 25, 1919. 
 
THE DIARY OF 
 BARTLETT YANCEY MALONE 
 
 Bartlett Y. Malone was bornd and raised in North Carolina 
 Caswell Comity in the Year of our Lord 1838. And was Gradgu- 
 ated in the corn field and tobacco patch : And inlisted in the 
 war June the 18th 1861. And was a member of the Caswell 
 Boys Company which was comanded by Captian Michel (A. A. 
 Mitchell) : And was attached to the 6th N. C. Regiment the 
 9th day of July '61 which was comanded by Colonel Fisher who 
 got kild in the first Manassas Battel which was July 21, 1861. 
 And then was comanded by Colonel W. D. Pender untell the 
 Seven Pines fight which was fought the 30th day of May '61. # 
 And then Colonel W. D. Pender was promoted to Brigadier Gen- 
 eral. And then Captain I. E. Avry (Avery) of Co. E was pro- 
 moted to Lieutenant Colonel who was in comand untell about the 
 10th of October when he was promoted to Colonel and still staid 
 in comand untell the 2th day of July 1863 which was the day the 
 fite was at Gettysburg whar he was kild. And then Lieut : 
 Colonel Webb taken comand. 
 
 Look hear Mr. Johnston did you ever go to Scolidge 
 I dont no : I guess you mean coledg dont you, Bans : 
 Yes, that what I said Scoledg : 
 
 Oh go way from hear negro you dont no what you ar a talken 
 about 
 
 Yes I do dat just what I said. 
 
 His purposes will riper fast 
 Unfolding evry hour 
 The bud may have a bitter taste 
 But sweet will be the flower 
 
 * For a history of the Sixth Regiment, see Clark (editor), North Carolina Regi- 
 ments, 1S61-1865, Vol. I (1901). 
 
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 May your days be days of pleasure 
 May your nites be nites of rest 
 May you obtain lifes sweetest pleasure 
 And then be numbered with the blest. 
 
 Whar ere you rome 
 What ere your lot 
 Its all I ask 
 Forget me not. 
 
 Remember me when I am gon 
 Dear friend remember me 
 And when you bow befour the throne 
 then remember me. 
 
 You are a charming little dandy 
 Sweeter than the sweetest candy. 
 
 Candy is sweet 
 It is very clear 
 But not half so sweet 
 As you my dear 
 
 One day amidst the plas 
 "Where Jesus is within 
 Is better than ten thousen days 
 Of pleasure and of Sin 
 
 for grace our hearts to soften 
 Teach us Lord at length to love 
 We alas forget too often 
 What a friend we have above. 
 
The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone 11 
 
 All I like of being a Whale 
 Is a water Spout and a tail. 
 
 A certen cewer for the Toothack if the tooth is hollow take a 
 pease of the scale that is on a horses leg and put it in the hollow 
 of the tooth It is a serten cewer so sais J. H. Lyon. 
 
 B. Y. M. 
 
B. Y. MALONE'S MEMORANDUM 
 
 FOR THE YEAR 1862 
 
 The first day of January was a beautyfull day 
 
 And William Hester died the last day of Dec. 1861 
 
 The 2 day was a beautyfull one and nothing happend of 
 eney interest that day. 
 
 The 3 day was also a prittj T day. 
 
 The 4 day we had a right smart snow and Mr. Compton is 
 at our camp to day on a visit, 
 
 The 5th which is the Sabath and ther is a right smart ice 
 on the ground to day And Bethel is a cooking I. H. Jonstons 
 big turkey for dinner. 
 
 The 6th day was a veiy coal one indeed and the snow is 
 about a half of a inch deep on the ground to day and Mr. I. T. 
 Compton left our camp to day for home. 
 
 The 7th day I was on gard and it was a very coal day. 
 
 The 8th day was also coal and me and Bethel washed our 
 close to day. 
 
 The 9th day was a beautyfull And Mr. Thomas Martin 
 arived at our camp today on a visit, 
 
 The 10 day was cloud}- but not much rain And I wrote a 
 letter to S. F. Compton today. 
 
 The 11 day was a very pritty day over head but powerfull 
 muddy under foot, And nothing happend to day worth a 
 naming. 
 
 The 12 day which is the Sabath and it is a beautifull sun- 
 shiney day And me and Young eat our big oposam today for 
 dinner and indeed it was sum good. 
 
 The 13 was a very nice day indeed. 
 
 The 14 day the snow was about shoe mouth deep And Mr. 
 Clover and Young and Joshua and my self went a rabbit hunt- 
 ing and caught one scpiirl And indeed we saw a heep of fun 
 that day. 
 
 The 15 day was a very bad day it raind all day and freezed 
 
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 as it fell and at night there was about as much ice on the treese 
 as I ever saw in my life. 
 
 The 16 day was a wright warm day and the snow nearley 
 all melted off of the ground by night 
 
 The 17 day was very cool and cloudy 
 
 The 18 day was sloppy day And I hird today that peas 
 was made between the North and South and I hird that our 
 men sunk a vessel down on the Potomac last night But indeed 
 I dont beleave a word of it. 
 
 The 19 day was a raney one and our Company was on picket 
 gard at Greenwood Church which is in about 9 miles from Poco- 
 quan And Mr. I. F. Richmond arived at our camp to day on 
 a visit. 
 
 The 20 day and it is still araning and nothing happend to- 
 day of any interest 
 
 The 21 is cloudy and a railing And I am on gard today at 
 the camp 
 
 The 22 was cloudy but no rain 
 
 The 23 was cloudy and cool but no rain And thir was hevy 
 canonading down on the Potomac to day 
 
 The 24 was cool and cloudy in the morning and in the eavn- 
 ing it was a snowing And Mr. Oliver and Young went to 
 Dumpfreese to day for witnesses for Mr. B. Murphey. 
 
 The 25 was a very cool day and Young went back to Dum- 
 frieze to day again for witnes for B. Murphey. 
 
 The 26 which was the Sabath was a beautyfull day indeed 
 
 The 27 was a warm sunshiney day and we all went out on 
 drill to day for the first time in too months And the Colonel 
 praysed ous all and said that he was glad that we had not for- 
 goten how to drill 
 
 The 28th day was cloudy in the morning and clear in the 
 eavning And I hope the Lieutenants get sum logs today to 
 put a flower (floor) in his hous 
 
 The 29 was a very pritty warm day, but after night it 
 comenced raning And I was on gard to day And my post 
 was right befour the Colonels house door. 
 
 The 30 day was a raney day and nothing happend to day 
 
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 onley me and Marshal Walker was a playing and I hurt my face 
 with a fence rail 
 
 The 31 day was cloudy but not much rain And nothing 
 happend today worth a menshionen. 
 
 B. Y. Malone. 
 
 The Month of February 1862 
 
 The first day of February was a raney day indeed And 
 nothing happened to day of eney interest 
 
 The 2 day which was the Sabath was a very warm day 
 
 The 3 day was a very bad day it snowed all day long and at 
 night the snow was about six inches deep 
 
 The 4 day was a very nice day over head and the snow 
 melted very fast all day, and we boys saw a heep of fun that 
 tlay a snow bawling 
 
 The 5 day was a very warm sunshiney day and the snow 
 was nearly all melted off of the ground by night And nothing 
 happend to day worth a namen 
 
 The 6 day was a very raney one And Lieutenant Lea and 
 Sergeant Couvington and H. Rudd and Mr. Balden all started 
 home to day as recruiting officers. 
 
 The 7 day was cold and cloudy And I was on gard to day 
 
 The 8 day was very cool And Lieutenant Lea was promoted 
 to Captian And Sergeant Olover promoted to Second Lieutenant 
 to day And Nat Hester promoted to fourth Corporal 
 
 The 9 day which was the Sabath was a very pritty day And 
 Thomas Grinsted dide to day he was a private in Captian Leas 
 Company 
 
 The 10 day was clear but cool And we went out on drill 
 today for the first time in severl weeks. 
 
 The 11 day was a very cool day And me and Cousin Ander- 
 son went down to the fourth Alabama Reg in a visit. 
 
 The 12 day was a very pritty day indeed and I went to 
 Dumfrieze today and then returned home 
 
 The 13th day was a pritty warm sunshiney day And we 
 went on drill twist that day. 
 
 The 14th day a wright coal day. 
 
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 The 15 day was a very bad day indeed it snowed all day 
 long and at night the snow was about 3 inches deep on the 
 ground 
 
 The 16 day was a clear day and the snow melted a little 
 And Mr. Luther Rudd dide to day about 8 oclock in the morning 
 
 The 17 day was a very bad day it rained all day and friezed 
 as it fell. 
 
 The 18 day was cloudy but warm and the ice melted off and 
 I was on gard that day 
 
 The 19 day was a very raney day indeed And Mr. I. R. 
 Hester And Calvin Snipes arived at our camp today on a visit 
 
 The 20 day was a beautifull day it looked like the spring of 
 the year and Mr. I. R. Moore left our camps today to go home 
 on a furlough 
 
 The 21 day was cool and cloudy And ther was a wright 
 smart excitement in camp today It was repoted that the Yankees 
 Was a landing at Colchester 
 
 The 22 day was cloudy and it rained a little in the morning 
 And Mr. I. R. Hester and N. Snips left our camp today for home 
 
 The 23 day was cloudy but not much rain 
 
 The 24 day was clear and very windey indeed 
 
 The 25 day was clear and cool And A. I. Brincefield started 
 home today on a sick furlough 
 
 The 26 day was cloudy but not much rain 
 
 The 27 day was clear and Brother Albert arrived at our 
 camps today on a visit 
 
 The 28 day was clear but very windey and cool And ther 
 was a wright smart stir in camps today for we had orders to 
 pack our knapsacks and to be ready to march at a moments 
 warning but wher we was to go too we did not no. Spring is 
 now come. B. Y. Malone. 
 
 The Month of March 1862 
 
 The 1 day of March was clear and very cool And I was on 
 gard in the day but being unwell I got excused from standing 
 after night 
 
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 The 2 day it snowed tell the snow was about 2 inches on the 
 ground. 
 
 The 3 day was cloudy and rained nearley all day 
 
 The 4 day was clear and cool and our company was on picket 
 gard today at Greenwood Chirch 
 
 The 5 day was cloudy but no rain And Brother Albert left 
 our camps today for home 
 
 The 6 day clear in the morning and cloudy in the eavning 
 And snowed o little And we had orders today from General 
 Whiten (W. H. Whiting) to drill twist every day hear after 
 
 The 7 day was clear but very cool and we have orders to cook 
 too days rations and be ready to march in the morning but 
 where we are agoing is more than I no 
 
 The 8 day of March was cloudy and cool And our Regiment 
 left camp Fisher today for Camp Barton 
 
 The 9 day was clear and warm And we marched about 15 
 miles to daj^ on toward Camp Barton 
 
 The 10 day was cloudy and raining in the morning but no 
 rain in the eavning And we arrived at camp Barton about 3 
 oclock in the eavning which is about 2 miles west of Frederks- 
 burg (Fredericksburg) 
 
 The 11 day was a beautyfull warm sunshiney day and we 
 cleaned our streets and struck our tents today 
 
 The 12 day was a beautyfull spring day and nothing occurd 
 of eney interest 
 
 The 13 day was warm and clear 
 
 The 14 day was warm and cloudy but no rain And I was 
 on gard at Camp Barton for the first time. 
 
 The 15 day was a very raney day indeed 
 
 The 16 day which was the Sabath was cloudy but no rain 
 And our recruits got in today and the number of them was 45 
 
 The 17 day was cool and cloudy but no rain and I hurd today 
 that we had to march back to Richmond 
 
 The 18 day was clear and warm And Lieutenant Colonel 
 Lightfoot of the 6th N. C. S. T. was promoted to Colonel of the 
 5th Alabama Regt today 
 
 The 19 day was cloudy and cool 
 
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 The 20 day was raney and very cool indeed 
 
 The 21 day cloudy and cool but no rain 
 
 The 22 day cloudy and sum rain And I was on gard and the 
 counter sign was York Town 
 
 The 23 day which was the Sabath was a beautyfull spring 
 day and I went to Frederksburg to preaching And the preach- 
 ers text was in St. John 3 chap and 18 virse 
 
 The 23 day cool and cloudy 
 
 The 24 cool and cloudy 
 
 The 25 was a beautyfull day 
 
 The 26 was also a nice day 
 
 The 27 warm and clear 
 
 The 28 was a beautyfull spring day and we have orders this 
 eavning to cook 3 days rashers And I hird severl cannons fyer- 
 ing this eavning but what is to be the result is more than I no 
 
 The 29 day it raind and haild and snowed and sleated and 
 friezed and done a little of all that was bad And me and James 
 Colmond went to Fredreksburg and went down to the landing 
 and went in a steam boat for the first one we ever was in 
 
 The 30 day which was the Sabath was cool and raney 
 
 The 31 day was a beautyfull day and I was on gard and my 
 post was befour the gard house door so nothing more. 
 
 B. Y. Malone 
 
 The Month of April 1862 
 
 The 6 day of April which was the Sabath was a beautyfull 
 spring day And I went to Fredericksburg to meating and the 
 Preachers text was in the first Book of Kings 18 chapter and 21 
 virse 
 
 The 7 day was a pritty one 
 
 The 8 day was cool and raney And our Regiment left Camp 
 Barton in the morning and marched on toward Richmond threw 
 the wind and water and waded the creaks as they went 
 
 The 9 was still cool and raney and we continued our march 
 And about 3 o'clock in the eavning as we was marching threw 
 a little Town cauld Balden Green it comenced halen and raining 
 on ous very hard And then it was about 3 miles to the Depot 
 
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 wher we was to take the cars And we all got very wet befour 
 we got ther And then about sundown we got in sum old horse 
 cars and was run to Ashland which was about 22 miles And 
 when we got ther I was wet and nearly frosen And I was on 
 gard and they put me on post wright away and I had to stand 
 
 2 hours And it was a snowing a little while I was a standing 
 
 The 10 day was cool and cloudy in the morning but cleerd 
 off about twelve and we stade in Town all day 
 
 The 11 day was a pritty clear day and we stade in Town 
 untell eavning And in the eavning we went out in the woods 
 about a mile from Town and struck our tents for the night 
 
 The 12 day was a very pritty one 
 
 The 13 day was also a nice one And William Jeffrus of our 
 Company dide this morning And we had a Preacher to preach 
 in our camp today and his text was in the Second Book of Kings 
 6 chapter and 15 and 16 and 17 virses. 
 
 The 14 of April was a very pritty day And our Regiment 
 left Ashland for Yolktown (Yorktown) And our rought was 
 down by Hanover Coathouse 
 
 The Second day we still continued our march And also the 
 
 3 and fourth we marched And the 5 day we marched and past 
 threw the town of Williamsburg about 9 o'clock in the morning 
 And about an hour before the sun set we arrived at General 
 Johnston Headquarters which is in about a mile of Yolktown 
 wher we stopt to wait for the Battle. 
 
 The 29 day of April was a beautyful day And Calvin Snips 
 got back today from home And the Reverant Mr. Stewart from 
 Alexander preached in our camp this eavning and his text was 
 this : I am the Lord of Host : 
 
 The Month of May 
 
 The 2 day of May was a beautyful one And we had orders 
 to leave Yorktown And soon in the morning the wagons was 
 loded and everything sent off but our knapsacks and about 12 
 o'clock the Artillery was all plast (placed) in a line of battle 
 acrost the field and about dark we was all marched out behind it 
 and Colonel Pender told ous that they expected a large fight 
 
The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone 19 
 
 the next day and we lade ther in the field all night with our 
 guns by our side And next morning we marched out in the woods 
 And we stade ther untell about 2 o 'clock in the night And then 
 we was rousted up and marched about a half a mile and then 
 for sume cause we was stopt and sent back And then about day- 
 break we started again and taken the same road back that we 
 come down And about 12 oclock we got to Williamsburg and 
 we onley went about 4 miles futher tell we stopt to stay all night 
 And about 4 oclock in the eavning the Yankees Calvery over- 
 taken ours clost to Williamsburg and we had a little brush but 
 our men whipt thirs and we onley lost one kild and 3 or 4 
 wounded And we kild 9 of thirs and wounded severl and taken 
 10 horses And the 5 day was a very raney one indeed and we 
 was rousted up about 2 oclock in the night and marched all day 
 threw the mud and water and at night we arived in about 2 miles 
 of West Point 
 
 The 6 day we stade in camp untell about one oclock And it 
 was reported that the Yankees was alanding down at West Point 
 and we was all run out in a file and plast in a line of battel ex- 
 pecting a fight but did not and about dark we marched back to 
 our camp and about 8 oclock in the night we marched about a 
 mile to another plase for sum cause and then stade thar all night 
 And the next morning which was the 8 was a beautyful one and 
 the Yankees was alanding at West Point and about 8 o 'clock we 
 was marched down to the intended battle field And from that 
 time untell 12 oclock we was a scurmishing and a running from 
 one place to another hunting the scamps And in the eavning 
 we marched back in the woods and stade thar untell about 12 
 oclock in the night And then marched about a mile futher back 
 And stad thar all night And then as soon as day broke we started 
 on our march again And about 3 oclock in the eavning we got 
 to West Point coathouse whar we found General Johnston and 
 all of his men And then we marched about 2 miles futher and 
 stop for the night 
 
 And the 9 day we rested untell about 12 oclock and then 
 started out on our march again and befour we had gone a mile 
 we hird that our Cavalry was attacked by the Yankees And 
 
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 then we had to stop and wate a while but we whipt them like we. 
 aulways do And then we marched on but dident git but 3 miles 
 that day And the 10 day we dident march but about a mile for 
 we was expecting the Scamps to attack us but they did not 
 
 The 11 day which was the second Sunday in May was a 
 beautyfull day indeed And we rested all day And the Rev- 
 erant Mr. Stewart from Alexander preached to us again today 
 
 The 12 day we still stade in camp and Mr. Fossett preached 
 for us today. And his text was in the first of Timothy 2 chapter 
 and 8 virse 
 
 The 13 day was clear and warm 
 
 The 14 cloudy and a raining 
 
 The 15 raney And we left Camp. Road today about 12 
 oclock and marched on toward Richmond 
 
 And the 16 we marched 
 
 And the 17 we got to our camp clost to Richmond 
 
 The 26 day of May was a nice one but about 12 oclock in the 
 night it comenced raining very hard And about 1 oclock we 
 was rousted up and did expect to attack the Yankees about day 
 but it rained so hard we did not go 
 
 And the 27 day it rained till about 10 oclock and then cleard 
 off And about 3 oclock in the eavning the fight comenced down 
 about Hanover Coathouse we surposed but we was not cauld out 
 And I was promoted today to fourth Corporel 
 
 The 28 day was clear and about a hour befour the sun set we 
 left our camp And march all night down toward Hanover 
 Coathouse And we past in about three hundred yards of the 
 Yankeys pickets And then we stopt and rested about 3 hours 
 And about 8 oclock the next day we started back and went about 
 5 or 6 miles and stopt for the night 
 
 And the next day we went back in about a mile and a half of 
 Richmond and staid thar all night 
 
 And the next morning which was the 30 we left and marched 
 down toward Chickahominy And about three oclock in the 
 eavning we was led in to the Battel field by Colonel Pender 
 And we had a wright nice time of it from then tell dark 
 
 And the next morning which Was the first day of June the 
 
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 fight comenced a little before the sun rose And we was plast 
 (placed) in a line of Battel And was expecting to go in to it 
 evry minuet but we staid there all day and was not cauld on; 
 General Longstreet divishion don the most of the fighting on 
 Sunday And from that time till the 11th we stade in the Swamp 
 down on Chickahominy River 
 
 And the 11 day we left Chickahominy And went to Rich- 
 mond and taken the cars and Went to the Junction that night 
 
 And the next morning we left thar And about a hour bef our 
 the sun set we arived at Linchburg 
 
 And the 12 day we stade at Linchburg 
 
 And the 13 day we got on the cars about dark and the next 
 morning we found our relief at Sharlottsvill (Charlottesville) 
 which was about 75 miles from Linchburg And we chainged 
 cars at that plase And the 14 day we traveld threw the Moun- 
 tins And about too hours befour the sun set we got to the 
 little town cauld Staunton And we stade ther tell the 18 And 
 the 18 which was just twelve months from the time I taken the 
 oath we left Staunton And marched about 15 miles wright 
 back the railroad the way we came down And stade all night 
 at a little town cauld Wainsborough (Waynesboro) clost to the 
 Turnel 
 
 And the next morning we croust over the Blew ridg and 
 marched to Mitchiners River And staid thar all night And 
 the next morning which was the 20 we taken the cars at Mitch- 
 iners River and road up to Sharlottsvill And then taken a 
 railroad thar that went to Gordnesvill And we got to Gordnes- 
 vill about 2 oclock in the eavning and we taken the Richmond 
 Railroad thar And road about 25 miles toward Richmond 
 at a station cauld Frederickshall And thar we got off 
 
 The 21 we stade at Frederickshall 
 
 And also the 22 we stade thar 
 
 And the 23 we started out again on our march and marched 
 all day long threw the hot sun and dust for it was very hot and 
 dusty the 23 but it raind that night. 
 
 And the next day (which was the 24) we still continued our 
 rout and when we stopt for night we was in 6 miles of Ashland 
 
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 And the 25 we travield all day long and at night we campt 
 a mile west of Ashland 
 
 And the 26 we travield sloley down the Chickahominy River 
 driving in the pickets as we went 
 
 And the 27 we still went on and about 3 oclock in the eavning 
 we come up with the main body of the Yankees (at Cold Harbor) 
 and attacked them And from that time untell dark we had a 
 wright warm time of it But we whipt them And in our com- 
 pany A. Burk was kild and A. Tucker and Page was slitley 
 wounded 
 
 And the 28 we marched about a mile the other side of the 
 battle field and stade thar all day, 
 
 And the 29 we stade at the same place And about 2 oclock 
 in the eavning we had orders to fall in to march but we did not 
 go And as we was stacking our armes again one of Captain 
 Tates men shot another one threw the thigh but it was don 
 axidentley 
 
 And the 30 we was rousted up about too oclock in the night 
 and about day break we started out again And crost the 
 Chickahominy River and marched untell we came to the York 
 river Railroad 8 miles below Richmond And then we taken 
 down the Railroad and about 2 hours befour sunset we come to 
 a little creak whar the Yankees had burnt the bridg And left 
 sum of thir peases thar to bumb us so we couldent build the 
 bridge untell they could get thir armey futher along, And we 
 never got the bridge built untell next morning about a half of 
 a hour by sun 
 
 The Month of July 1862 (Also August to December) 
 
 And the next morning whitch was the first day of July just 
 twelve months from the time I left home we crost over and 
 about 10 oclock we overtaken the scamps again And they 
 comenced throwing bumbs amung us And we amung them 
 And thar was a very heavey canonading cept up all day And 
 a little befour night the pickets comenced fyring And from 
 that time untell about a hour in the night thar was very hard 
 filing don indeed And a great meney kild and wounded on 
 
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 boath sids in our company M. Miles L. Smith, B. Murphey, I. 
 Calmond, G. Lyons And my self was all hurt 
 
 And the next day which was the second was a very rany 
 day indeed And our Regiment moved back in the woods a peas 
 and stade thar all day 
 
 And the next day we marched back about three miles toward 
 Richmond and stopt for the night 
 
 And the 4 day we marched down on James River about 25 
 miles from Richmond 
 
 And the 5 we stade at the same plase untell sun down And 
 then our Regiment had to go on picket And we marched down 
 in about a mile of the Yankees and sent out our detail 
 
 And also the 6 day we was on picket at the same plase 
 
 And the 7 day we was releaved about twelve oclock And 
 then we marched back about a mile in the woods 
 
 And the 8 we stade thar untell about 4 oclock in the eavning 
 And then we started out for Richmond And we marched untell 
 about 10 oclock in the night and we got as far as White Oak 
 Swamp which was about 10 miles from the plase whar we 
 started 
 
 And the 9 day we started again about 4 oclock and we got in 
 about 3 miles of Richmond And then we moved up in about a 
 mile and a half of Richmond and taken up camp and the 11 we 
 got sum flages and put them up And Mr. I. H. Compton ar- 
 rived at our camp today on a viset 
 
 And the 12 day we still stade in camp And also the 13 we 
 stade in camp and Mr. I. H. Compton left our camps today for 
 home for him. And we still staid at Richmond untell the 7 of 
 August And then we left thar And marched about four miles 
 toward Ashland And when we stopt it was dark And then our 
 company had to go about 5% miles futher to stand picket and 
 it was 12 oclock in the knight when we got to the plase whar we 
 we was to stand: 
 
 And the next morning we was releived and we had to go 
 back to our Regiment again : 
 
 And the 9 day we started out again about four oclock in the 
 eavning and marched untell about one oclock in the knight 
 
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 And when we stopt we was about thre miles beyond Ashland 
 which was about 15 miles from the plase whar we started from 
 
 And the 10 day we started again about 4 oclock and we went 
 as far as Hanover Junction which was about 6 miles 
 
 And the 11 day we started in the morning and marched about 
 5 miles down clost to a little river and stopt again to take up 
 camp 
 
 And the 14 day our Regt left thar and marched up toward 
 Gordensvill And I was not able to go with them so they ex- 
 cused me and started me back to the Hospital clost to Richmond 
 And we had to walk to Hanover Junction which was about 4 
 miles And we had to stay thar all next day for we could not 
 get eny cars to tak us eney f uther 
 
 And the 16 day we got on the cars about 8 oclock and got to 
 the Hospital about 11 And then I staid at the Hospital untell 
 the 2 day of September And then I taken the cars at Rich- 
 mond and got as far as Gordensvill the first day 
 
 And the 3 day we rode on the cars as far as Rapadan River 
 and Bridg was burnt thar and then we had to walk from thar 
 to our Regiment And it was 115 miles to Winchester And 35 
 from thar to the Reg. but we left Rapadan the 4 day and walked 
 up the railroad to Culpeper Coathouse which was 12 miles from 
 Rapadan River 
 
 And the 5 day we taken the turnpike road and marched as 
 far as Warrenton Springs which was 18 miles from Culpeper 
 
 And the 6 day we got to Warrenton about 12 oclock which 
 was 7 miles from Warrenton Springs And by nite we got to a 
 littel Town by the name of Baultimore And it was 5 miles from 
 Warrenton 
 
 And the 7 day we got to a littel town by the name of Hay- 
 market about 12 oclock And we dident get but about 4 miles 
 futher that day for we had to stop to get sompthing to eat 
 
 And the 8 day we got as far as Aldie and it was about 15 
 miles from Haymarket 
 
 And the 9 day we got to Leasburg and it was about 12 miles 
 from Aldie 
 
 And the 10 day we past threw a littel town by the name of 
 
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 Hamelton and it was about 5 miles west of Leasburg And the 
 11 day we got to Snigerville about nite and it was 10 miles from 
 Hamilton. 
 
 And the 12 day we crost over the Blew ridge in the morning 
 and about 10 oclock we crost Shandal River and it was about 4 
 miles from Snigersville And by nite we got to Berrysville and 
 it was 5 1/2 miles from Shanandoah 
 
 And the 13 day we got to Windchester and it was about 10 
 miles from Berryville 
 
 And then we stade at Windchester untell the 16 and then we 
 started to Harpersferry and we got as far as Berryville the first 
 day and then taken the left hand road and got as far as Charles- 
 town the 17 day 
 
 And the 18 day we crost the Potomac at Shepards town about 
 nite and it was 24 miles from Berryville 
 
 And the 19 day we crost back again and got as far as Charles- 
 town by night and the 20 day we got to Berryville again 
 
 And the 21 we travaild untell we got in 4 miles of Windches- 
 ter and then taken the wright hand road to go to Martinsburg 
 and we past by the Burnt Factory and got as far as Jordons 
 Sulphur Springs by night. 
 
 And the 22 day we got to a littel town by the name of Buck- 
 town and the 23 day we got to our Reg. and it was clost to 
 Martinsburg and Martinsburg was about 22 miles from Wind- 
 chester 
 
 And then the 27 the Regiment left thar and marched in five 
 miles of Windchester 
 
 The 22 of October was cool and very windy indeed and the 
 23 was clear and cool and we had a General revew 
 
 And the 24 we left our old camp and marched about a mile 
 near to Windchester to pease of woods and taken camps in them 
 again 
 
 And the 28 we left thar for Culpeper and got as far as 
 Shanadoah River the first day 
 
 And the 30 day the fields was white with froust and about 
 sun up we waded the River at Front Royal and by night we got 
 as far as a littel town by the name of Flint Hill 
 
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 And the 31 day we marched all day and got in five miles of 
 Culpeper by nite 
 
 And the first day of November we got to Culpeper 
 
 And the second day which was the sabath I went to meating 
 at Culpeper And the preachers text was in St : John 16 chapter 
 7.8.9.10 and 11 virses 
 
 And the 3 day we marched over to the old battel field at 
 Sedar Run which was about 3 miles from Culpeper and stopt 
 again for camp 
 
 And the 7 day it snowed 
 
 And the 8 day the Second and 11 Myssissippians left our 
 Bregaid and the 54 and 57 N. C. taken thir plases 
 
 And the 9 day was a very cool day 
 
 And the 10 day was a pritty one indeed and thar was a very 
 hevy canonading cept up all day sum whar between Culpeper 
 and "Windchester and we had orders to cook rashions and ex- 
 pected to be cauld on evry minnet but was not 
 
 And the 18 day we left Culpeper for Fredericks and the 
 first day we was as far as Rapidan River by nite and we marched 
 all day threw the rain and mud the 20 and also the 21 and the 
 22 we got to Fredericks about 12 o'clock 
 
 And the 5 day of December it raind all day and about night 
 it eomenced snowing and snowed untell it was about a inch and 
 a half deep on the ground And the 6 day and 7 was very cool 
 indeed 
 
 And the 11 day the too signerl guns was fyerd just befour 
 day and we was run out in a line of battel and kept so all day 
 and the Yankees crost over the River that day 
 
 And the 12 day we was marched around to the left of our 
 armey and was expecting to have to fight every minnet but did 
 not for thar was no fiting don except the pickets and canonading 
 
 And the 13 we was marched back to the wright and laid in a 
 line of battel all day under the Yankees shells but non of ous 
 got hurt 
 
 And that nite we was sent to the front on picket and laid 
 clost to the enemey all nite and went marching about day we 
 eomenced fyring at them and cept it up all day and there was 
 about 15 kild and wounded in our Best : but non kild in our 
 
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 Company, B. Richmond and P. S. Donahan was slightly 
 wounded and that nite we marched back in the woods And we 
 staid thar all day the next day and at nite we had to bild ous 
 sum brest works 
 
 And the next morning which was the 16 General Hood came 
 riding up and said well Boys you all did such great works hear 
 last nite that you scard the Yankees on the other side of the river 
 but we staid thar all day 
 
 And the next morning which was the 17 we marched back 
 to our old camps 
 
 And the 24 day was cool and cloudy and it was wash day 
 with me. 
 
 And the 25 which was Christmas morning was foggy but soon 
 cleard off and was a pritty day but I dident have nothing to drink 
 nor no young ladies to talk too so I seen but little fun 
 
 And the 26 was a warm cloudy day and me and M. Walker 
 went to the depot 
 
 And the 27 we and Lewis Smith went back to the Depot and 
 after nite I went to the show to see the Monkey. 
 
 And the 28 day was clear and warm and Preacher Miller of 
 Company C. preached for ous in the evening and his text was 
 in 126 Psalms and third virse the Text was this The Lord hath 
 done great things for us : Whereof we are glad : 
 
 And the 29 day was a prity warm sunshiney day And I was 
 on divishion gard at General Hoods headquarters 
 
 And the 30 day was warm and cloudy but no rain 
 
 And the 31 day which was the last day of 1862 was cool and 
 cloudy and our Regiment had muster inspection in the day and 
 at nite our Company had to go on picket gard down the bank of 
 the Rapahanok River whar we was in about a hundred yards of 
 the Yankees pickets they was on one side of the river and we 
 was on the other we was in talken distence but our officer would 
 not alow ous to talk they would cum down on the bank and 
 hollow to ous and say if we would bring the boat over that they 
 would come over on our side and have a talk. So that was the 
 last of our works for the year 1862. 
 
 Bartlett Y. Malone 
 
 Co. H. 6th N. C. Regiment 
 
THIS IS FOR THE YEAR 1863 
 
 The Month of January 
 
 The first day of January was a pritty day and our Company 
 was on picket down on the Rapahanock River about a mile and 
 a half below Fredericksburg Va. 
 
 And the 2 day was also a nice one 
 
 And also the 3 was a pritty day 
 
 And the 4 day was a pritty warm day and we all was on 
 Bregaid inspection the 4th. 
 
 And the 5 day was warm and looked like the spring of the 
 year and we was all on Bregaid Drill the 5 day down on the 
 old Battel field. 
 
 And the 6 day was cloudy and raind a littel 
 
 And the 7 day was clear and cool and we all was in General 
 Revew 
 
 And the 8 day was cloudy and cool 
 
 And the 9 day was clear and cool and we all was on Divishion 
 revew again General Hood was our revewing Officer 
 
 And the 10 day was cloudy and raind all day long 
 
 And the 11 was cloudy and cool 
 
 And the 12 clay was a pritty day 
 
 And also the 13 
 
 And the 14 was warm and cloudy and we built a chimly to 
 our tent today 
 
 And the 15 day was warm but very winday and R. H. Wells 
 started home this morning on a furlogh 
 
 And the 16 day was a very pritty warm day and we had 
 orders to cook too days rations we was expecting the Yankees 
 to cross the River again but they did not 
 
 And the 17 day was clear but very col indedd : 
 
 And the 18 was cool 
 
 And the 19 was warm and I was en gard 
 
 And the 20 was cloudy and cool 
 
 And the 21 was a very cool and raney day, 
 
 And also the 22 day was raney and very cool. 
 
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 And the 23 day was cloudy in the morning and cleared off 
 warm about an hour befour the sun set 
 
 And the 24 day was warm and cloudy and the old Bludy 
 6th and 54 and 56 N. C. Regt was transferrd from the old 3 
 bregaid which was comanded by General Law (E. M. Law) to 
 the 7 Bregaid which was comanded by General Hoik (R. F. 
 Hoke). 
 
 And the 25 day was cloudy and raind a littel in the morn- 
 ing about 12 olclock and we got to General Hoik (Hoke) Bre- 
 gaid about 11 oclock which was 15 miles from General Lows 
 (Law's) Bregaid whar we started from: 
 
 And the 26 day was warm and cloudy 
 
 And the 27 was a very raney day indeed 
 
 And when I got up the morning of the 28 it was a snowing 
 and it snowed all day long 
 
 And the 29 day was clear and cool and the snow was about 
 10 inches deep on the ground 
 
 And the 30th was clear and cool 
 
 And the 31 was pritty and Mr. Mitchel Johnston and Mr. 
 John Evans arrived at our camp today on a visit. 
 
 The Month of February 1863 
 
 The first day of February which was the Sabath was a pritty 
 spring day 
 
 And the 2 day was cloudy and raind in the morning but 
 clear and very windy in the eavning 
 
 And the 4 day was cloudy cool and windy 
 
 And the 5 day it Snowed in the morning and raind in the 
 eavning 
 
 And the 6 day was raney 
 
 And the 7 clear and warm 
 
 And the 8 day which was the Sabath was a beautyfull spring 
 like day 
 
 And the 9 was also prity and 
 
 And the 10th day was snowing and also the 11 was 
 
 And the 12th was a pretty warm day. 
 
 The the 13 was clear and cool. 
 
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 And the 14th was cool and clear. 
 
 And the 15 was warm 
 
 And the 16 was warm and clear 
 
 And the 17 was a snowey day and we all had to go on picket 
 down at Port Royal. 
 
 And the 18th it raind all day long and the snow nearly all 
 melted of by nite and we still stade on picket 
 
 And the 19th was cloudy but no rain and we returned to 
 our Regiment 
 
 And the 20 was warm and clear 
 
 The 21 was warm and clear 
 
 The 22 was a very bad day it snowed and the wind blew all 
 day and at nite the snow was about a foot deep. 
 
 And the 23 day was warm and clear but the snow dident 
 melt no great deal 
 
 And the 24 was warm and General Stokes Bregaid and 
 General Lautons (Lawton?) had a snow ballen 
 
 And the 25 was a warm sunshiney day 
 
 And the 26 was a raney day and nearley all of the snow was 
 gone by nite. 
 
 And the 27 was warm and cloudy and our Brass Ban got 
 back from Richmond. 
 
 And the 28 which was the last day of February was coal 
 and cloudy. And Mr. Portland Baley of Company D. 6th Regi- 
 ment N. C. Troops was shot to death to day at 2 oclock with 
 musketry. 
 
 Now the dark days of winter is gon And the bright days of 
 Spring is come. 
 
 B. Y. Malone.. 
 The Month of March. 
 
 The first day of March was coal and raney in the morning 
 and in the eavning it was clear and very windy And the 2 day 
 was a beautyfull Spring day. 
 
 And the 3 day was a beautyfull one and our Regiment left 
 the old camp clost to Port Royal and marched back clost to 
 Fredericksburg and taken camp again clos to the one we left 
 
 The 16 day of March was cloudy and coal And Mr. Stons 
 
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 in Co. F. 57 N. C. Regiment was shot to death to day with 
 musketry. 
 
 The 17th of March the Yanks crossed the Raphanock River 
 at Keleys foad and our calvry whipt them back. 
 
 And the 20 was cloudy in the morning and snowed a littel in 
 the eavning and Mr. I. H. Compton arived at our camp today 
 on a visit And the 21 it Snowed untell it was about 3 inches 
 deep on the ground 
 
 And the 22 the snow all melted off And Mr. Compton and 
 Johnston left camp today for home. 
 
 The last day of March the Snow was about 3 inches deep on 
 the ground. 
 
 The Month of April (May and June) 
 
 The 4 day April was cloudy and coal in the day and after 
 nite it comenced Snowing And the morning of the 5 the Snow 
 was about 3 inches deep on the ground and five companys of 
 our Regt had to go on picket down on the Raphanock River 
 
 And the 6 day was clear and warm and the snow nearly all 
 melted of by nite and we still staid on picket and the 7 day 
 we retired to our camps. 
 
 The 18 day which was the Sabath was a beautyfull Spring 
 day and General Jackson s preacher preached in our camps and 
 his text was in Hebrews 3 chapter and part of the 7 and 8 virses 
 the words was this : To day if ye will hear his voice harden 
 not your harts. 
 
 The 23 day was raney and we had orders about nite to cook 
 too days rations thar was sum few Yankees crossed over the 
 river at Port Royal and taken a wagon or too from our men 
 but they soon went back and our Regt dident have to leave the 
 camp 
 
 The 26 day of April which was the Sabath was a beautyfull 
 day And I went to meating at General Jackson Headquarters 
 And the Preacher taken part of the 16th chapter of Luke com- 
 mencen at the 18 virse for the foundation of what remarks he 
 made And in the eavning we had preachen in our Regiment 
 from a preacher in the 18th Virginia Regiment. And his text 
 
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 was in Proverbs 18th chapter and the later clause of the 24th 
 virse which reads thus : Ther is a friend that sticketh closter 
 than a brother : 
 
 The morning of the 28 befour I got up I herd a horse come 
 threw the camp in a full lope and it was not meney minutes 
 untell the man come back and sais Boys you had better get up 
 we will have a fight hear to reckly and I comenced geting up 
 and befour I got my close on they comenced beating the long 
 roal and it was not but a minnet or too untill I herd the Adger- 
 tent hollow fall in with amies the Reg : then was formed and 
 marched to the Battel field the Yankies comenced crossing the 
 river befour day and by day they had right smart force over 
 the pickets fought sum on the 29 and a good deel of canonading 
 was don and it raind sum in the eavning 
 
 The morning of the 30th it was a railing and evry thing was 
 very still untill about twelve oclock it ceased railing about ten 
 o'clock they comenced cannonading and cept it up untill dark 
 
 The first morning of May 63 our Regiment had to go in 
 front on picket it was very foggy in the morning but soon got 
 clear as soon as the fog was off we found the Yankees had a very 
 strong line of Scirmishers in about 5 hundred yards of ours we 
 cood see a great meney Yankees on the other side of the river 
 but we couldent tell how meney was on this side we could hear 
 very hevy canonading up the river in the eavning It is repoted 
 that our men and the Yankees was a fyting at Keleys Foad : 
 
 The 2 day of May was a very pritty day and our Regiment 
 was relieved from picket about day and fell back to our brest 
 works again our men fyerd on the Yankies from too Batterys 
 about 10 o'clock and the Yankies returned the fyer from one 
 Battery it was kept up about a hour but no damedge don as I 
 have herd of we can still hear tbem a fyting at Keley's Foad 
 
 And about 5 o'clock in the eavning we could see the Yankees 
 a marchen up on the other side of the river by regiments and 
 most all went back from on this Side of the river and General 
 Earley thought that they was all a going back and taken all of 
 his men but a Louisiana Bregaid and started to reinforce Gen- 
 eral Lea And about the time we had gone 6 miles they come 
 
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 orders that the Yankees was atvancen again whar we had left 
 And then we had to turn back and march all the way back about 
 10 o'clock in the nite. And the next morning which was the 3 
 day our men comenced Burning (bombing) the Yankees and 
 they returned the fyer and ther was right smart canonading 
 and picketing don untell about 12 o'clock and then for sum cause 
 we was all ordered to fall back about a half of a mile to our last 
 breast works but as soon as dark come we marched about 2 miles 
 up the River. 
 
 And the next day which was the 4 we was marching about 
 first from one plais to a nother a watching the Yankees untell 
 about a hour by sun and the fight was opend our Bregaid went 
 in and charged about a half of a mile and just befour we got 
 to the Yankee Battery I was slitley wounded above the eye with 
 a peas of a Bumb non was kild in our company. Lieutenant 
 Walker was slitley wounded in the side. I. R. Allred was 
 wounded in the arm hat to have it cut off. I. E. Calmond was 
 slitley wounded in the arm. I. L. Evins had his finger shot off — 
 the fift day we found the Yankees had all gon back on the other 
 side of the River and we marched back down to the old camp 
 ground and taken up camp again 
 
 The 10 day of May which was the second Sunday was a very 
 pretty day and I went to headquarters to preaching and the 
 preachers text was in Romans the 8th chap and 28 virse the 
 words was this : And we know that all things work together 
 for good to them that love God. And General Jackson died to 
 day which is the 10th day of May 
 
 The 17 and 18 days was pritty and warm and our Regiment 
 was on picket down on the Raphanoc and the 18th we got 
 back to the camp : 
 
 And again the 25th we had to go on picket And the 27 we 
 got back about 12 oclock and in a few minuets after we got back 
 we had to go on a General Revew General R. E. Lea revewed 
 General Earleys Divishion. 
 
 The last day of May we had marchen orders and after nite 
 Mr. Tassett preached in our Regt his text was in St. Johns 3 
 chapt & 16th virse. 
 
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 The 4th day of June about 11 Oclock in the nite we left our 
 old camp clost to Fredericksburg and marched twar Culpeper 
 and bout 6 O'clock the 5th day we got to Spotsylvaney Coat- 
 house and about 2 o'clock in the eavning we stopt for to camp 
 for the nite after marchen about 20 miles that day And the 
 6th day we stade in camp untell about 2 'clock in the eavning 
 for General Hils core was a fiting at Fredericksburg the Yankees 
 crossed ther after they found out that we had left we marched 
 about 8 miles the 6th day and it raind on ous very hard befour 
 we taken up camp. 
 
 And the 7th day we started on our march about sun up and 
 about 12 o'clock we waded Rapadan River at Rackoon Foad 
 and about 4 O'clock in the eavning we stopt to camp again 
 in about 5 miles of Culpeper Coathouse. 
 
 The 8th day we marched up to Culpeper and stopt to cook 
 Rations The 8 day we staid at Culpeper untell about 3 'clock 
 in the eavning and then we was ordered down to Brandy Sta- 
 tion about 4 miles from Culpeper whar the Calvry hat bin 
 fiting all day and we staid all nite and the next morning we 
 found that the Yankees had all gon back on the other Side of 
 the River and we marched back to Culpeper again and cooked 
 another days rations and about 3 O'clock in the eavning we 
 started again in the direction of AVinchester and we got as far 
 as Hasel Run (Hazel Run or Deep Run) by nite And the next 
 morning which was the 11th we started about sun up and 
 about 9 O'clock we got to a littel town cauld Woodwin and 
 whilst we was a passen threw the 6th N. C. Brass Ban plaid the 
 Bonnie Blew Flag. And about eleven O'clock we got to a 
 littel town cauld Sperysvill 5 miles from Woodwin And about 
 2 O'clock in the eavning we past threw Washington and ther 
 we found a meney pritty and kind Ladies they had water all 
 along the streets for the Soldiers to drink and we dident go but 
 a few miles futher untell we stopt for the nite after going about 
 20 miles that day. 
 
 And the morning of the 12th we started about sun up and 
 about 3 o'clock in the eavning we crossed over the Blew Ridg 
 and past threw a littel town cauld Front Royal and about a 
 
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 mile from ther we waded the Shonadoak River and taken up 
 camp on the other bank that nite. 
 
 And the morning of the 13th we started at day and when 
 we got in 12 miles of Winchester we found that the Yankees 
 was at New Town on the Pike road running from Winchester to 
 Strawsburg (Strasburg) 7 miles from Winchester and we turnd 
 and went by ther and caught up with the Yankees about half 
 way from ther to Winchester and attacked them and drove them 
 back about a mile by nite 
 
 And the next morning which was the 14th General Hooks 
 (Hoke) Bregaid and General Smith and Hoses (?) all moved 
 around to the west of Winchester and taken 20 peases of artil- 
 lery with ous and when we got opersit the Yankees work the 
 artillery taken ther position and about 3 o'clock in the eavning 
 our Baterys opend on them taken them on surprise and General 
 Hares ( ? ) and General Smith Bregaid charged on them and 
 taken their first line of brest works befour nite And General 
 Johnstons (Johnson) Divishion was a fiting them on the other 
 Sid clost to town 
 
 And the next morning which was the 15th the Yankees had 
 left their works and was a trying to make thir escape toward 
 Martinsburg but about day they run up on General Johnstons 
 divishion about 5 miles from town wher three Regt of them was 
 maid to stack thir armes and a grate meney kild and wounded 
 we then marched down to whar Johnston fought them that 
 morning and stopt and staid ther all day 
 
 And the next morning about 10 o 'clock our Regt was marched 
 back to Winchester for Provost gard and about a hour befour 
 sun down I was sent to Taylor's Hotell with 10 men to gard the 
 Yankees Prisoners And I staid ther the next day and also 
 the next 
 
 And the next morning which was the 18th I was relievd 
 about 9 O'clock and started after my Regiment and about 3 
 o 'clock in the eavning we got to Smithfield and by nite we got to 
 a littel plais cauld Leas Town which was 22 miles from Win- 
 chester and we staid ther all nite and the next morning we over- 
 
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 taken our Regiment about five miles from ther wher we staid 
 all day 
 
 And the next day we staid ther 
 
 And the 22th we taken up a line of march again about day 
 and about 7 o'clock we past threw Shepardstown and ther 
 waded the Potomac and landed in Maryland about 8 oclock 
 And about 3 miles from ther we past threw Sharpsburg And 
 about 3 miles from ther we past threw Ketersvill And about 3 
 miles from ther we past threw Boonesboro and about 3 miles 
 from ther we stopt to camp. 
 
 The 23 we left about day and when we had gon about 4 
 miles we come to Beversvill and about 7 miles from ther we 
 past threw Coverstown And about a mile from ther we past 
 threw Smithburg whar we found a good meney Secesh And 
 about 2 miles from ther we got to a littel town cauld Ringgoal 
 wright war the line run between M. D. & Pa. And about 2 
 miles from ther we stopt to camp and cook rations closs to 
 Wainsboro. 
 
 The morning of the 24 we left about 7 oclock and after 
 marching about 5 miles we come to a town cauld Quincy And 
 about 3 miles from ther we past threw Funktown and about 4 
 miles from ther we got to Greenswood whar we taken up camp 
 for the nite but our company had to go on gard at a town cauld 
 Faytvill about 2 miles off. 
 
 The morning of the 25th I got a Splendid breakfast in Fayt- 
 ville And about 2 Oclock in the eavning we was releaved and 
 went back to the Regt : 
 
 And the next morning which was the 26th we had orders to 
 leave at day break but it was a railing so hard we dident leave 
 untell about 8 oclock and it dident Still sease railing but raind 
 all day but we got as far as Momenburg by nite which was 14 
 miles from wher we left in the morning And our Calvery taken 
 a 135 prisners clost to the lettel town 
 
 The 27 we left about 6 oclock and after marching about 6 
 miles we come to a town cauld Hunterstown And about 4 miles 
 from ther we got to New Chester And 3 miles from ther we 
 
The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone 37 
 
 got to Hampton And 3 miles from ther we got to Berlin wher 
 we taken camp for the nite 
 
 The 28th we left at sun up and about 12 oclock we got to 
 Yolk which was 12 miles from Berlin : 
 
 The 29th we stade at Yolk in the Yankees Hospital. 
 
 The 30th we left at day break and taken the same road back 
 that we com And about 12 oclock we got back to Berlin again 
 And when we stopt for nite we was about 20 miles from Yolk : 
 
 The Month of July 
 
 The first morning of July we left earley and about 12 oclock 
 we got to Gatersburg (Gettysburg) which was about 10 miles 
 from wher we started in the morning And when we got there 
 we found the Yankies was ther And in a few minutes after 
 we got ther we was ordered to the feal Our Bregaid and Gen- 
 eral Haser (Hays) charged the enemy and soon got them routed 
 and run them threw the town and then we stopt 
 
 In our Company George Lyon Marshal Walker and Thomas 
 Richard got kild And Sidney Hensby Anderson Plesant D. A. 
 Walker Garababel Grimstead William Dunervant & Bedford 
 Sawyers was wounded 
 
 The 2 day we laid in a line of battel at the Same plais And 
 the enemies picket a firing on us all day Thomas Miles kild on 
 picket Shot in the head And about Sun down our Bregaid and 
 Hoser was ordered to charge just in frund and take the enemes 
 Batterys we charged and succeeded in driven the Infantry from 
 behind two stone fences and got part of the Batterys But it 
 was soon so dark and so much smoke that we couldent see what 
 we was a doing And the enemy got to geather again and we 
 had no reinforcement and we had to fall back to our old posi- 
 tion Colonel I. E. Avry (Avery) was kild in the charge in our 
 company non kild Andrew Thompson Franklin Wells and R. 
 Y. Vaughn was wounded And Michagels Miles misen 
 
 The 3 morning we went back in town and laid in a line of 
 battel all day in the Streets And ther was a great deel of flting 
 don that day but our Divishion was not cauld on 
 
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 The nex morning about a hour befour day we went back 
 about a mile from town and staid ther all day 
 
 The morning of the 5 we left befour day and it a raining as 
 hard as it could poor and marched in the direction of Hagerds- 
 town and didnt get but about 6 miles all day for the Yanks 
 calvry kep a running up on ous all day 
 
 And the 6th we left at day and about 2 oclock we got to 
 Wainsboro and we past threw town and then stopt to cook 
 rations 
 
 The 7th we taken the road to Hagerdstown which was 10 
 miles from Wainsboro And about 2 oclock in the eavning we 
 got ther and taken up camp 
 
 The 8th day it raind very hard and we still stade at the 
 same plais the 8 we staid ther and the 10 we staid at the same 
 place until about a hour by sun And then started and past 
 threw town and went about a mile toward Williamsport and 
 stopt and staid all nite 
 
 The 11th we taken our position in a peas of woods and after 
 nite built brest works 
 
 The 12th we staid behind our works and no fiting don except 
 sum picketing And after nite we was ordered to the wright 
 And was marched down in rear of A. P. Hills old Divishion 
 
 The 13th we staid ther untill dark and then started to re- 
 treet back across the Potomac And it was about 6 miles to the 
 river and it was a raning very hard And we was a moving all 
 nite and the next morning about sun up we waded the Potomac 
 at Williamsport and it was waist deep And then we marched 
 about 6 miles and stopt to cook rations 
 
 The 15th we marched about 7 miles and stopt at nite clost 
 to Martinsburg And the 16th we marched up to Darksvill and 
 stopt again And we still staid at Darksvill untell about a hour 
 by sun and marched to the Alagater mountain by 10 Oclock in 
 the nite : 
 
 The 21 we left at day break and crost the mountain And 
 marched as far as Hedgersvill by 2 Oclock in the eavning which 
 was 25 miles we expected to bag the Yankees at plais but when 
 we got ther they was all gon ; 
 
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 The 22th we left Hedgersvill and marched back to Bunker- 
 hill whitch was 18 miles. 
 
 The 23 we marched and about 10 oclock we marched threw 
 Winchester and taken the road to Culpeper and marched about 
 
 5 miles and stopt for the nite : 
 
 The 24th we marched near the Shanadoah River and found 
 that the Yankees had got possession of the gap in the Blew 
 Ridg 
 
 And then we taken the write and come in to the Winchester 
 and Stanton Road at Middeltown 5 miles from Strawsburg and 
 we stopt at nite clost to Strawsburg which was 23 miles from 
 wher we started at in the morning 
 
 The 25th we marched all day toward Stanton and travild 
 about 18 miles and stopt clost to Edensburg : 
 
 The 26th we past threw Hawkenstown and 2 miles from ther 
 we come to Mount Jackson and we marched as far as New 
 Market and stopt fer the nite 
 
 The 27th we left the Stanton road and taken a road that led 
 to Gordensvill : we crost over the Shanadoah mountian and crost 
 the Shanadoah river on Pontoon Bridges and when we stopt at 
 nite we was at the foot of the Blew Ridg which was 18 miles from 
 Newmarket 
 
 The 28th we crost over the Blew Ridg which was 14 miles 
 across it 
 
 The 29th we marched up to Maderson coathouse whitch was 
 
 6 miles and stopt and taken up camp 
 
 The 30 we staid at the same plais 
 
 The 31st we left at one Oclock and marched down between 
 Culpeper and Gordensvill 
 
 A list of Co. H. 
 Sargants. 
 
 1 Johnston I. H. 
 
 4 Hester N. W. 
 
 2 Rudd A. P. 
 
 5 Malone B. Y. 
 
 3 Bauldin W. H. 
 
 
 
 Corporel 
 
 1 Murrie W. W. 
 
 3 Walker M. H. 
 
 2 Biele C. 
 
 4 Tompson A. J, 
 
40 
 
 James Sprunt Historical Publications 
 
 
 Privat 
 
 
 1 Aldridg I. H. 
 
 35 
 
 Miles J. S. 
 
 2 Anderson Q. T. 
 
 36 
 
 Moore A. 
 
 3 Aired J. B. 
 
 37 
 
 Malone H. 
 
 4 Bivins M 
 
 38 
 
 Murrey T 
 
 5 Brincefield A. J. 
 
 39 
 
 Mckinnie Murphy B. P 
 
 6 Brankin I 
 
 40 
 
 Mosey J. W. 
 
 7 Boswell T 
 
 41 
 
 Oliver J. S. 
 
 8 Cooper W. H. 
 
 42 
 
 Olver T 
 
 9 Coving-ton I. E. 
 
 43 
 
 Plesant A. M. 
 
 10 Compton I. B. 
 
 44 
 
 Page F. 
 
 11 Colmond J. E. 
 
 45 
 
 Roberson J. 
 
 12 Cape T. H. 
 
 46 
 
 Rudd E. 
 
 13 Chatham C 
 
 47 
 
 Richmond W. 
 
 14 Donoho S. 
 
 48 
 
 Richmond T. 
 
 15 Dunervant I. 
 
 49 
 
 Rigan N. 
 
 16 Dunervant W. 
 
 50 
 
 Simpson F. 
 
 17 Evins T. H. 
 
 51 
 
 Swift R. 
 
 18 Enoch R. H. 
 
 52 
 
 Smith L. 
 
 19 Fauller I 
 
 53 
 
 Swift H. A. 
 
 20 Fitch G. S. 
 
 54 
 
 Stadler G. 
 
 21 Grimsteard G. 
 
 55 
 
 Subfield R, 
 
 22 Hensley S 
 
 56 
 
 Snips J. C. 
 
 23 Hensley A 
 
 57 
 
 Tucker A. 
 
 24 Huges W. A. 
 
 58 
 
 Vaughn R. Y. 
 
 25 Hooper N 
 
 59 
 
 Williams J. W. 
 
 26 Johnston I. H. 
 
 60 
 
 Williams J. R. 
 
 27 Kersey L. 
 
 61 Walker John 
 
 28 King S 
 
 62 
 
 Walker W. S. 
 
 29 Lyon G. 
 
 63 
 
 Walker J. H. 
 
 30 Lyon I. H. 
 
 64 Walker D. A. 
 
 31 Loyd I. W. 
 
 65 Walker W. T. 
 
 32 Lewis C. 
 
 66 Wells M. 
 
 33 Miles M. 
 
 67 Wells W. F. 
 
 34 Miles T. C. 
 
 68 
 
 Wren W. 
 
The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone 41 
 
 Bartlett Y. Malones, Book 
 This the 19th of Nov. 1863 
 
 Bartlett. Y. Malones Book 
 This is the 18th of Dec. 1863 
 
 Bartlett. Y. Malone Seg't. of Co: H. 
 
 6th N. C. Regiment 
 
 This the 22d of Dec. 1863 
 
 And we staid in camp clost to Rappidan Station untell the 
 14th of Sept. 63. And the morning of the 14th we was rousted 
 up and gave orders to cook one days rations. And about sun 
 up we started to meat our enemy and we met them at Sumers- 
 vill foad on the Rappidan River which was about 5 miles from 
 our old camps. We had not bin there long untell our enemy 
 comenced throwing bumbs amung us but as soon as our Bat- 
 terys got position and fired a few shots the yanks all left the 
 field. And the 15th we laid in the woods all day. No fiting 
 don but some canonading and picketing but at dark our Reg't 
 went on picket down at the foad. The 16th as soon as lite our 
 men comenced firing at the Yanks and they at us and kept it 
 up all day about 10 o'clock in the day Capt. Pray of Co. D & 
 Lieut Brown of Co. E and 18 men voluntierd and went up the 
 river and crost in a littel Boat and Slipt up to some old houses 
 and fierd at the Yanks & run about 200 of them out of their 
 works and captured a horse severl good Guns Blankets another 
 trick and then crost back and never got a man hirt. They kild 
 4 or 5 of the Yanks & wounded 4 which they taken prisners. 
 We got 4 wounded in our Reg't. dewing the day. At nite we 
 was relieved by the 57th N. C. Reg't. The 17th no fiting don 
 except a few picket shots evry now an then at the foad. 
 
 Evry thing was quiet then untell the 5th day of Oct. 63. 
 And the 5th day of Oct. about tenn Oclock we was ordered to 
 fall in at a moment and then marched to our post and taken 
 our position in a line of battel. And we remaind so untell nite 
 and then was marched back to our camps again. The Yanks 
 
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 could be seen mooving about from a hight on our side of the 
 river. Our Generals surposed that they was agoing to make 
 an efert to cross. But they did not : they was onley moving 
 camps: All was quiert then untell the 8th. The 8th day we 
 left our camps about dark and marched about 2 miles and stopt 
 and staid all nite. The 9th day we marched up to Orange C. H. 
 by 12 o'clock: then taken the road to Maderson C. H. (Madison) 
 marched 6 or 7 miles and stop for nite again. 
 
 The 10th we got to Maderson by 4 o 'clock in the eavning and 
 crost Roberson River at 3 and then marched about 4 miles futher 
 toward Culpeper and stopt for nite our Cavalry had a littel fite 
 in the eavning at the River taken about one hundred prisners. 
 The 11th we marched toward Culpeper and got in 6 miles and 
 stopt and cooked 3 days rations, it was 20 miles from Maderson 
 C. H. to Culpeper C. H. 
 
 The 12th we had orders to leave at 2 o 'clock : A. M. but did 
 not leave untell day we marched on then untell we was in 2 
 miles of Culpeper. And then taken the left and came in the 
 Warrenton road at Pickersvill And there we waded Haselrun 
 and marched on to the Rappahannock River and campt clost to 
 Warrenton Spring. The 13th we marched up to Warrenton 
 and stopt and cooked 2 days rations : The 14th we left for 
 Bristol but had to drive our enemey befour us our Cavalry was 
 fiting them allday and some times the Infantry, our Divishion 
 don a great deal of hard marchen had to dubbelquick nearly 
 one third of our time. A. P. Hill Corps overtaken the Yanks 
 at Bristol Station and had a littel fite : we did not get ther in 
 time to be ingaged 
 
 The 15th the Yanks had all fell back to Sentervill (Center- 
 ville) we did not go eney further our Cavalry folerd them and 
 taken severl Prisners. 
 
 The 16th we tore up the Railroad 
 
 The 17th we staid in camp clost to Bristol Station. 
 
 The 18th we left at 3 o'clock in the nite for Rappahannock 
 and got as far as Beattoe Station by nite. 
 
 The 18th we marched to the Rappahannock and crost and 
 went in camps between the river and Brandy Station 
 
The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone 43 
 
 The 28th our Reg't went on picket on the Rappahannock 
 The 29th we was relieved 
 The 30th we had bregaid drill 
 The 31st had muster inspection 
 
 The Month of November (and December) 
 
 The 5th day of Nov. General Lea & Governer Letcher of Va. 
 revewed General Stuart Cavalry clost to our camps 
 
 The 6th we was paid off And paid up to the first day of 
 November, 1863. 
 
 The 7th about 2 o 'clock in the eavning orders came to fall in 
 with armes in a moment that the enemy was atvancen. Then 
 we was doubbelquicked down to the river (which was about 5 
 miles) and crost and formed a line of battel in our works and 
 the yanks was playing on ous with thir Artillery & thir skir- 
 mishers a fyring into ous as we formed fyring was kept up 
 then with the Skirmishers untell dark. And about dark the 
 yanks charged on the Louisianna Bregaid which was clost to 
 the Bridg and broke thir lines and got to the Bridge we was 
 then cutoff and had to Surender: was then taken back to the 
 rear and staid thir untell next morning The morning of the 8th 
 we was marched back to Warrenton Junction and got on the 
 cars and about day next morning we got to Washington we 
 then staid in "Washington untel 3 o'clock in the eavning of the 
 8th then was marched down to the Warf and put on the Sterner 
 John Brooks and got to Point Lookout about one 'clock on the 
 eavning of the 10th day of November 1863. The names of the 
 men that was taken prisner when I was belonging to Co. H. was 
 Capt. Lea Lieut. Hill W. H. Bowldin N. W. Hester W. W. 
 Murrie C. Rile H. Malone I. R. Aldridge L. T. Anderson A. I. 
 Brincefield I. E. Covington T. Y. Compton I. C. Chatham T. H. 
 Evans G. R. Grimstead W. A. Hughs N. Hooper H. Kersey 
 A. More W. D. Richmond P. Simpson R. Swift L. Sawers H. 
 Roscoe A. Tucker John Walker W. S. Walker W. P. Wells 1. 
 Wren S. Hensley And Segt. A. P. Rudd 
 
 Our rations at Point Lookout was 5 crackers and a cup of 
 coffee for Breakfast. And for dinner a small ration of meat 2 
 
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 crackers three Potatoes and a cup of Soup. Supper we have non. 
 We pay a dollar for 8 crackers or a chew of tobacco for a 
 cracker. 
 
 A Yankey shot one of our men the other day wounded him 
 in the head shot him for peepen threw the cracks of the planken 
 
 The last day of November was very coal indeed and the 
 Yanks had inspection of ous Rebels. One of the Yankee Sen- 
 tinerls shot one of our men the other morning he was shot in 
 the head : soon died. 
 
 All the wood we get to burn at Point Lookout is one sholder 
 tirn of pine brush every other day for a tent 16 men to every 
 tent 
 
 The 16th of Dec. 63 a Yankey Captain shot his Pistel among 
 our men and wounded 5 of them; sence one has died — he shot 
 them for crowding arond the gate. The captain 's name that shot 
 was Sids. Him and Captain Patison and Segt. Finegan was 
 the 3 boss men of the prisoners camp. 
 
 The 24th of Dec. 63 was a clear day but very cool. And 
 Generl Butler the Yankey beast revewed the prisners camp : 
 
 The 25th was Christmas day and it was clear and cool and I 
 was boath coal and hungry all day onley got a peace of Bread 
 and a cup of coffee for Breakfast and a small Slice of Meat 
 and a cup of Soup and five Crackers for Dinner and Supper 
 I had non : 
 
 The 26th was clear and cool and dull for Christmas 
 
 The 28th was cloudy and rained a littel The 28th was a 
 raney day. 
 
 The 29th was cloudy in the morning and clear in the eav- 
 ning. And Jeferson Walker died in the morning he belonged 
 to the 57th N. C. Regt. The 30th was a beautyfull day. 
 
 The 31st which was the last day of 63 was a raney day. 
 And maby I will never live to see the last day of 64. And 
 thairfour I will try and do better than I have. For what is a 
 man profited if he shal gain the whole world and loose his 
 one Soul : Or what Shal one give in exchange for his Soul : 
 
 B. Y. Malone. 
 
B. Y. MALONE'S BOOK 
 
 FOR THE YEAR 1864 
 
 I spent the first day of January 64 at Point Lookout M. D. 
 The morning was plesant but toward eavning the air changed 
 and the nite was very coal, was so coal that five of our men 
 froze to death befour morning. We all suffered a great deal 
 with coal and hunger too of our men was so hungry to day that 
 they caught a Rat and cooked him and eat it. Thir names was 
 Sergt. N. W. Hester & I. C. Covington. 
 
 The 6th was coal and cloudy and we had 9 men to die at the 
 Hospital to day. Our beds at this plaice is composed of Sea 
 feathers that is we geather the small stones from the Bay and 
 lye on them 
 
 The 7th was very cool a small Snow fell after nite 
 
 The 10 was a nice day and I saw the man to day that makes 
 Coffens at this plaice for the Rebels and he sais that 12 men 
 dies here every day that is averidgs 12 
 
 The Commander at this point is named Marsto 
 
 The 22th day of January 64 was a very pritty day And it 
 was my birth day which maid me 25 years of age I spent the 
 day at Point Lookout. M. D. And I feasted on Crackers and 
 Coffee The two last weeks of January was beautyfull weather 
 
 The Month of February. 64 The first day of February was 
 warm but cloudy and Sum rain : 
 
 Be content with such things as you have : For he hath said 
 I will never leave the nor forsake thee So we may boldly say 
 the Lord is my helper and I will not fear what man shall do 
 unto me 
 
 There fell a Small Snow the morning of the third Sergt. 
 A. P. Rudd & Gidney King arived at Point Lookout from 
 Washington the 4th. We changed Cook houses on the 7th 
 of Feb. 
 
 The 14th of Feb was a pritty day And the Yankes Sirched 
 the Prison Camp the Rebels was all sent out side under gard. 
 
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 And then they sirched and taken evry mans Blanket that had 
 more then one. And taken evry other little trick that the 
 Rebels had. They found too Boats that the Rebs had maid. 
 
 375 Officers arived at Point Lookout from Jonstan Isle the 
 14th of Feb. The Yankey papers say that they are having a 
 Gun maid that weighs 115,000 lbs. 21 ft. long carries a Ball that 
 weighs 1000 Lbs and a shell that weighs 700 lbs. 
 
 The 17th it was so coal that we all had to lye down and rap 
 up in our Blankets to keep from freazing for we had no wood 
 to make us a fire. 
 
 The 18th it was so coal that a mans breath would freaze on 
 his beard going from the Tent to the Cookhouse. O, it was so 
 coal the 18th 
 
 The 20th was pleasant and General Butler the Beast re- 
 vewed the Prison Camp again for the Second time 
 
 The 24th was a beautyfull day And too of the Rebs got 
 kild the nite of the 24th attempting to get away : We was 
 garded at Point Lookout by the second fifth and twelfth New- 
 hampshire Regiments untell the 25th of Feb : And then the 
 26th N. C. Negro Regiment was plaised gard over ous 
 
 A Yankey preacher preached to the Rebels the 26th day of 
 Feb : 1864 : His text was in first Corinthian 16 chap and 22th 
 virse The words was this : If any man love not the Lord Jesus 
 Christ let him be Anathema Maren athas That is let him be 
 acursed when the Lord shal come 
 
 The Month of March 
 
 The first day of March was coal and raney : And our Com- 
 pany was examined on the Oath question evry man was taken 
 in the House one at a time and examioned : the questions asked 
 me was this : Do you wish to take the Oath and join the U. S. 
 Armey or Navey : or work at govenment work or on Brestworks 
 or Do you wish to take a Parole and go to your home if it be 
 insied of our lines or do you wish to go South I told him I 
 wished to go South : He then asked me my name County 
 State Company & Regiment The 2d two thousen Rebels left 
 Point Lookout M. D. for Dixie : 
 
The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone 47 
 
 The 3d I met with The good luck of geting sum Cloathing 
 from Dixie : 600 Rebels left for Dixie again the 9th. 
 
 Another boat load of Rebels left Point Lookout the 16th 
 for Dixie. 
 
 250 Officers arived at Point Lookout the 20th 
 
 One of our Rebel officers maid me a present of a dollar in 
 greenback (the 21st) he stuch it threw the crack of the planken 
 to me without being asked 
 
 The 20h of March a Yankey Sergt : named Young shot one 
 of our Officers for jawing him : 
 
 The 22d was very coal and stormey and a while befour 
 nite it comenced snowing and snowed all nite : the snow would 
 avridge 3 inches deep the next morning : 
 
 The 25th I went to the cookhouse for a cook : 
 
 The Month of April 
 
 The first day of April was a very nice day. 
 
 The 5th was a very bad day it raind hard snowed and the 
 wind blew the Bay was so high that it overflowed part of the 
 Camp. Some men had to leave thir tents and moove up to the 
 Cook house : There was some men in camp who had been going 
 about of nits and cuting tents and sliping mens Knapsacks Hats 
 Boots and Sumetimes, would get Some money They cut into 
 ours and got money and cloathen all amounting to about one 
 hundred dollars : One nite the Negros was on gard and caught 
 them they was then plaised under gard and made ware a Barrel 
 Shirt (and marched) up and down the Streets with large let- 
 ters on them the letters was this Tent Cutters 
 
 The 12th the 3d Maryland Negro Regiment was plaisd on 
 gard around the Prison Camp : When the Negrows first come 
 on gard they wore thir knapsacks and when they was put on 
 poast they puled them off and laid them down at the end of 
 thir lines And Some of our men stole too of them : And when 
 the Negro found it was gone he sais to the next one on post 
 Efrum- Efrum : tell that other Negro w up dar that the white 
 folks has stold my knapsack a redy : The other one sais they 
 have stold mine too but I want caring for the knapsack all I 
 
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 hate about it is loosing Sophys Garotipe (daguerreotype?) One 
 day too of them was on poast in the Streets and met up at the 
 end of thir lines and comenced fooling with thir Guns what 
 they cauld plaing bayonets they had thir guns cocked preseantly 
 one of thir guns went of and shot the other one threw the brest 
 he fell dead : the other one sais : Jim, Jim get up from dar you 
 are not hurt your just trying to fool me : 
 
 The nite of the 18th a negrow Senternel shot one of our 
 men wounded him very bad threw the sholdier 
 
 The nite of the 21st a Negro shot in a tent wounded two of 
 our men 
 
 The 27th a load of Sick Rebels left Point Lookout M. D. for 
 Dixie. 
 
 The 29th a nother Neagro kild him Self. Shot him Self in 
 the mouth with his gun : 
 
 The Month of May 64 
 
 The 3d day of May 6 hundred Rebels left this plaice for 
 Dixie 
 
 The 13th about one hundred prisnors was brought to this 
 plaice they was capturd clost to Petersburg Va. 
 
 The 15th 40 prisnors arived at this point captured between 
 Richmond and Petersburg by Gen. Butlers armey 
 
 The 17th about one thousin Prisnors arived at this plaice 
 was captured at the wilderness The 17th about 1000 was 
 brought in from General Leas armey 
 
 The 18th four hundred more was brought in the camp 
 
 The 24th a Neagro Senternal Shot a mung our men kild one 
 and wounded three it is thought that one of the wounded will 
 die : 
 
 The 28 four hundred more prisnors arived here "We have 
 Pork and Been Soop to day for dinner Will have beef and 
 Coffee to morrow I believe I will go down in Camp, but the 
 sun is very hot 
 
 The Month of June 1864 
 
 The first day of June was clear and hot 
 
The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone 49 
 
 The 4th We had Beef and Potato Soop for dinner the Yanks 
 are not a going to give us no more Coffee and Sugar from this on 
 
 The 8th 6 hundred Prisnors arived at this point from Gen- 
 eral Leas Armey 
 
 The 10th we have Old Bacon to day for dinner for the first 
 time sience we have bin at P.t. Lookout 
 
 The 11th 500 more prisnors arived here. 
 
 The 18th of June which was three years from the time I vol- 
 untierd was cloudy and cool. And we had Pork and Hominy 
 for dinner There is some talk of moving the Prisnors from this 
 point it is getting to be very sickley here 11 men died at the 
 Hospital yestiday it is said that the water is not healthy 
 
 It is reported that General Grant and General Lea are fiting 
 on the South of the James River 
 
 From the 20th of June untell the last was very dry and dusty 
 And we would hear good news evry now and then from our 
 Armey Our Rations Still remain Small 
 
 July the 1st 1864 
 
 The first day of July 1861 I left home And the first day of 
 July 1862 I was in the fight of Malvin Hill And the first day 
 of July 1863 I was in the fight at Gettersburg And today whitch 
 is the first day of July 1864 I am at Point Lookout M. d. It is 
 very plesant to day We had pical Pork for breakfast this morn- 
 ing and for dinner we will have Been Soop 
 
 The 4th day of July was a beautyfull day And the Yanks 
 had thir Vesels riged off with flags they had about 34 flags on 
 each Gun Boat about 12 O'clock they fierd Saluts boath from 
 thir land Batry and Gun Boats. 
 
 The 13th day of July 13 of our men died at the Hospital 
 And it was repoted that General Ewel was a fiting at Washing- 
 ton And that our Cavalry was in 4 miles of this plaice the 
 Yanks was hurried up sent in all Detailes at 2 O'clock in the 
 eavning and run thir Artilry out in frunt of the Block house 
 and plaised it in position The 14th 500 Rebels taken the Oath 
 and went outside 
 
 The last day of July was the Sabath 
 
50 James Sprunt Historical Publications 
 
 No man is bornd without folts 
 
 Too much of one thing is good for nothin 
 
 Cut your Coat accorden to your cloth 
 
 All are not Sants who go to Church 
 
 All are not theavs that dogs bark at 
 
 Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open 
 
 A clean glove often hids a dirty hand 
 
 Seay what is well and do what is better 
 
 He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing 
 
 Fear no man and do justice to all men 
 
 Evry Cook praises his own stew 
 
 Before thou marry be sure of a house wherein to tarry 
 
 Evry bodys business is no body's business 
 
 Do what you ought come what may 
 
 Love cover meney folts. 
 
 The race is not always to the swift nor the battel to the strong 
 
 You cannot catch old birds with chaff. 
 
 A bad workman quarrels with his tools 
 
 B. Y. Malone 
 B. Y. Malone Owes cts 
 Q. T. Anderson Paid 
 A. P. Rudd Paid 
 
 T. Y. Compton Paid 
 Sergt W. T. Johnson 
 Sergt. Laffoan 
 Samuel Mothers head 
 George Anthony 
 
 A Puzzel 
 There is a thing in divers of countrys 
 It neither is land nor Sea 
 It in all sorts of timber 
 And not in eny tree 
 It is neither in Italy 
 But in Rome 
 
 It appears twist in evry moment 
 And not once in twenty years 
 
The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone 51 
 
 Dew B. Y. Malone 
 
 
 Thomas Murray 
 
 $1.00 
 
 John Forast 
 
 $1.00 
 
 W. A. Hughs 
 
 $1.00 
 
 E. W. Rudd 
 
 $1.00 
 
 N. W. Hester Paid 
 
 $5.00 
 
 W. R. Richmond Paid 
 
 $5.00 
 
 T. Y. Compton Paid 
 
 $5.00 
 
 W. F. Wells Paid 
 
 $5.00 
 
 A. I. Brinefield Paid 
 
 $5.00 
 
 L. Kersey Paid 
 
 $5.00 
 
 B. Y. Malone Owes 
 
 
 Q. T. Anderson Paid 
 
 $6.50 
 
 A. P. Rudd Paid 
 
 $5.00 
 
 Bartlett Y. Malone, Soldier of Co. H. 6th N. C. Regiment. 
 
 This April the 16th 64 
 Point Lookout, M. D. 
 
 O, that mine eyes might closed be 
 To what becomes me not to see 
 That deafness might possess mine ear 
 To what concerns me not to hear. 
 
 Mr. Demill & Co., 
 
 No. 186 Front Street 
 New York City, 
 
 N. Y. 
 B. Y. Malones Chirography. 
 
 The Month of August 1864 
 
 The first day of August was clear and very hot And 700 
 Rebels left here for Some other new Prison to day A mung them 
 was my Brother A. A. 
 
 The 2d day of August I wrote home 
 
 The 6th of the month there rose a thunder cloud early in the 
 
52 James Sprunt Historical Publications 
 
 morning and raind very hard : there was a whirlwind just out sid 
 of the Prison on the point it blew the Comasary house and Shop 
 down and seven other Buildings it distroyed a good deal wounded 
 four senternels broak ones leg There was but littel wind inside 
 of the Prison 
 
 The knight of the 7th A Neagro Senternel Shot one of our 
 men and kild him for no cause attall 
 
 The 28th of August a Senternel shot a nother one of our men 
 wounded him very badly it is thought that he will die 
 
 The two last days of August cool and plesant 
 
 The Month of September 
 
 The firs days of September was plesant the Knights was cool 
 but the days was plesant 
 
 The 2d day this is And our Rations gets no better we get 
 half a loaf of Bread a day a smal slice of Pork or Beef or Sault 
 Beef for Breakfast for Dinner a cup of Been Soup and Supper 
 we get non Mr. A. Morgan of South Carolina has a vacon Cook 
 House which he has bin teaching School in evry Sience last 
 Spring he is a Christian man he preaches evry Sunday and has 
 prayers evry morning befour School we have a Preacher to evry 
 Division in the Camp Mr. Carrol preaches to our Divi which 
 is the 8th This is the 5th day of the month and we are going to 
 have Been Soup with onions in it to day for dinner we will have 
 Potatoes and Onions boath to morrow the Dr had them sent in 
 here for rebs to se if they would not stop Scirvy My health is 
 very good to day which is the 6th of Sept. 64. But I cannot tell 
 how long it will remain so. for it a railing and very coal to day 
 Aand I have not got eney Shoes 
 
 This is the 7th and a pritty day it is and I am laying flat on 
 my back on T. Y. Comptons Bead in Co. G 8th Division Point 
 Lookout M. D. 
 
 The 8th was a beautyfull day And I had my Bunk Seting 
 out by the Side of the Cook house and about dark I wanted to 
 bring it in as I had bin doing but the Neagro Sentinel would not 
 let me cross his line So I went down threw the house and asked 
 a nother one if I could cross his line and get my Bunk and he 
 
The Diary of Bartlett Yancey M alone 53 
 
 Said yes so I cross and got my Bunk and the first Neagro did 
 not see me. And when he found that the Bunk was gone he come 
 to the house door and wanted to know where that man was that 
 taken that Bunk And if he dident bring it back that he would 
 come in there and Shoot him So then I had to go to the dor and 
 he told me to bring that Bead back So I taken it back and could 
 not get it any more untell I went and got the Lieut, of the 
 Comisery to get it for me So you See this is the way we was 
 treated by the Neagrows. B. Y. M. 
 
 The 15th of Sept was a beautyfull day And a general Stir 
 among the Rebs the Dr. was getting up a load of Convalesant men 
 to Send to Dixie. You could See men going to the Hospital to be 
 examiond Some on Cruches and Some was not able to walk and 
 would be Swinging a round others necks draging a long 
 
 They got a load of five hundred and Sent them out of the 
 Prison we Surpose they will leave the 15th for Dixie The 19th 
 received a Box of tobacco from my Father James B. Malone who 
 resides in Caswell County North Carolina The 21st all Prisnors 
 belonging to the Confederate Staits Navy was Parold at this 
 place. 
 
 This Sunday the 25th of September and it is very coal 
 I wrote home to day 
 
 The 26th 800 Prisnors arived at this point belonging to 
 Erleys (Early) Comand captured clost to Winchester The 
 knight of 26th Some one stold 5.45 in greenback from me 
 
 The 27th 500 more Prisnors arived here from the same 
 Comand 
 
 The 28th the Yanks brought in three Negrows that they 
 caught helping a Lady across the Potomac Some where be- 
 tween here and Washington they brought them here and put 
 them in Prison because they would not take the oath 
 
 The 30th I wrote to Bro. James 
 
 October 1864 
 
 The first day of October was cold and raney day The 3d 
 800 Prisnors arived here from Early's command captured at 
 Fishers Hill Va. among them was James M Wells of Co H 6th 
 N. C. Regt 
 
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 The 4th 100 more Prisnors com in Ther is about 10,000 Pris- 
 nors here at this time last Summer ther was 15,000 here but 
 Some was sent to Elmira N. Y. 
 
 The 7th was fasting and prayer day with ous for the reliece 
 of all Prisnors 
 
 Today is the 8th and is very cold 
 
 The 13th was very cool And in the eavning 200 Rebs taken 
 the Oath 
 
 The 15th I Sold the last of my Tobacco the Box brought 
 me fifty five dollars and 70 cts 
 
 To day is the 16th And a beautyfull Sabath it is : the Boys 
 in camp are all in a line wating to be inspected by Major A. G. 
 Brady Provost Marshall 
 
 To day is the 18th and Secretary Stanton has just past 
 threw the Camp. 
 
 The 21st 200 Rebels arived here from the Valey captured 
 Severl days ago. 
 
 The 24th they parold Severl Sick men Said to be 2000 to 
 leave in a few days. 
 
 The 25th Some more prisnors come in from the Valey Said 
 that 900 was capturd when they was 
 
 The 29th About 80 Rebs arived here they was capturd clost 
 Petersburg Old Butler kept them at work on a Pond 8 days 
 under the fire of our guns. 
 
 The 31st 600 more Rebs arived here capturd clost to Peters- 
 burg 
 
 November 1864 
 
 The first of November was pritty w.eather. 
 
 The 7th whitch was just twelve months from the time I was 
 captured was a raney day. 
 
 The 8th was election day for president Abraham Lincoln & 
 George B. McClellan was candidates 
 
 The 9th was warm and cloudy and our Rations ar not a 
 good as they was a year ago : And I See no chance for march- 
 ing Soon. 
 
 B. Y. Malone. 
 
The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone 55 
 
 The 18th of Nov. was a cold raney day Our men are not 
 dying here like they have bin they onley avridge about too a 
 day now The last of Nov. was pritty warm weather 
 
 December 1864 
 
 The first day of Dec was warm as Spring And the Yanks 
 comenced building some littel plank houses covered with clouth 
 for the Rebs to stay in 
 
 The 3d I paid 10 cets to go into a Concert that the Rebs had 
 got up in camp it was a very good thing they performed in a 
 bacon Cook-house. 
 
 The 4th which was the Sabath I went to meating at the 
 School house Mr. Morgan lectured on the Parable of the Sower 
 & in the eavning I was at the Same plaise and Mr. Carol preached 
 a good Surmond from the later clause of the 2 virse 7 chapter 
 of Amos : Theas was the words : By whom Shall Jacob arise : 
 for he is small. After preaching was over the Sunday School 
 classes met and thir teachers taken up the balance of the day in 
 asking them questions and explaning the Scriptures to them 
 We have white gard now for patroles in camp of knights the 
 Neagros got so mean that the General would not alow them in 
 Side of the Prison they got so when they would catch any of 
 the men out Side of thir tents after taps they would make them 
 doubble quick or jump on thir backs and ride them and some 
 times they would make them get down on this knees and prey to 
 God that they might have thir freadom and that his Soul might 
 be sent to hell 
 
 To day is the 15th and it is cold looks very mutch like Snow 
 we have had very coald weather for the last week we get Split 
 Peas now to make Soups. Some day we get Bacon and some 
 days Picle Pork and fresh Beef once a week 
 
 My health is very good at this time I weigh 155 lbs We 
 have comenced drawing wood we get two smawl shoulder turns a 
 day to a Company Each Company has 100 men 
 
 The 21st was a very cold raney day Brigadeer General Barnes 
 in comand of the Point A. G. Brady is Provost Marchall Capt 
 Barnes assistant Prov. 
 
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 The 24th was a beautyfull day I chopt wood in the morning 
 at the cookhouse in the eavning I bought 3 apples and set in the 
 Sun Shine by the Side of Sergt. A. P. Rudd tent & eat them. 
 And then my Self Q. T. Anderson W. W. Murrie & W. F. Wells 
 went up to the School house to a Debate but did not get in And 
 then we went back to the Tent and found T. Y. Compton with a 
 newspaper that he had bought and we spent the remainder of 
 the day in reading it. 
 
 The 25th was Christmas day And a beautyfull one it was. 
 But I had nothing Strong to drink and but little to eat I had 
 Some loaf Bread fryed Meat & Corn Coffee for breakfast and 
 for dinner I had a cup of Split Pea Soup. 
 
 In the eavning I went to the School house to meating Mr. 
 Carrol preached his text was in Zachariah 15th chapt 7 virse 
 After preaching I went to the Comisery and found that Mr. 
 Walas had bet Mr. Barby five dollars that there was a man in 
 Camp that could eat 5 lbs of Bacon and 3 Loafs of Bread each 
 loaf weighing 2 lbs at one meal. When I left he had onley about 
 14 of a pound of Bacon and a half of a loaf of bread they Said 
 he eat it all befour he quit. This man belonged to the 11th Ala : 
 Regiment 
 
 The 26th was a raney day 
 
 The 27 & 28 was cloudy 
 
 The 29th was cold and cloudy & Snowed a little in the Eav- 
 ning 
 
 The 30th was cold 
 
 The 31st was very cold and Snowed a littel evry now & then 
 threw the day. 
 
BARTLETT Y. MALONE'S BOOK 
 
 FOR THE YEAR 1865 
 
 The Month of January 
 
 The first day of January was very cold & the grown was 
 coverd with Snow : 
 
 The 2d was cold and cloudy 
 
 The 3d it snowed a littel in the eavning 
 
 The 4th was very cold and the Snow was 3 inches deep 
 
 The 5th was warm and cloudy 
 
 The 6th my Self A. R. Moore James R. Aldridg Nathaniel 
 Hooper & T. Y. Compton built us a hous out of cracker Boxes 
 the house coust us $8.80 cts we bought a stove from the Sutlar 
 the Stove coust us $8.00 the Stove and house totel $16.80. 
 
 The 15th was a beautyful Sabath & I went to meating & 
 Mr. Newman preached from Psalms 8 ch. 4th Virse 
 
 The 17th it Snowed in the morning And about one thousen 
 old men & littel Boys left for Dixie. 
 
 The 21st it rained and Sleated all day & a large Dixie mail 
 came in one hudred & Sixty dollars worth of Due Letters : 
 
 The 22d was cold and cloudy & it was my birthday whitch 
 made me 26 years old. And about 600 prysnors come in to day 
 captured at Foat Fisher The men that came in Say that Gen- 
 eral Whiten & Colonel Lamb was captured and also wounded 
 After knight a Neagrow Sentnal Shot one of our men and 
 kild him. 
 
 The 23d a large Dixie mail come in I got 2 letters from home 
 & one from Bro. Jim. 
 
 The 28th was clear but the coldest day we have had this 
 winter there was a man froze to death in the 5th Division after 
 knight. 
 
 The 29th was the Sabath I went to meating with Mr. Athy 
 preached 
 
 The 30th & 31st was pritty warm days. 
 
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 February 1865 
 
 The first of Feb. was warm And 500 Rebels come in cap- 
 tured clost Atlanta Ga. 
 
 The 4th all men belonging to Kentuckey Missouri Louisina 
 Tennasee & Arkansas was cauld to go to Dixie. 
 
 They Still cauld on the 5 & 6th. 
 
 The 17th all prisnors captured at Gettersburg was cauld out. 
 
 The 18th the Gettersburg Prisnors left for Dixie. 
 
 The 21st all Prisnor capturd at Rappahanoc Station was 
 cauld we all went out and Signed the Parole and was put in 
 the Parole Camp and staid there most all the 24th then we was 
 put on the Steamer George Leary we got to Fortress Monroe 
 about dark And then run as far as Hampton Roads and there 
 we staid all night Started next morning at light which was 
 the 25 got to Acorns Landing about 10 Oclock which was about 
 12 miles from Richmond on the James River we then marched 
 from there to Camp Lea we got to Camp Lea about dark We 
 then Staid at Camp Lea untell the 27 when we wen over to 
 Camp Winder. 
 
 March 1865 
 
 The 2 day of March I got my Furlough the 3 they paid me 
 12 months wages which was 237.00. 
 
 Went down to Richmond got on the cars about 6 O'clock in 
 the Eavning 
 
 The 4th I got to Barksdale Depot about 10 in the morning, 
 got off at Barksdale marched to the Road house by dark Eat 
 Supper with Mr. Hanrick marched on 2 miles further and Staid 
 all night with Mr. Moss. Left early next morning which was the 
 5th eat Breakfast at Mr. Maxtons got home about 1 O'clock in 
 the Eavning. B. Y. Malone. 
 
 B. Y. Malone was borned in the year of our Lord 1838 rased 
 and graduated in the Corn field & Tobacco And inlisted in the 
 war June the 18th 1861 And was a member of the Caswell Boys 
 which was comanded by Capt Mitchel And 25 was attatched 
 to. the 6th N. C. Regt. which was comd by Coin Fisher who got 
 kiled at the first Manassas fight which was fought July the 21st 
 
The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone 59 
 
 1861. They was comanded by W. D. Pender mitell the Seven 
 Pine fight which was fought the 30th day of May 62 Col. Pender 
 then was promoted to Brigadier General Then Capt. I. E. 
 Avry of Co. E. was promoted to Lieut Colonel who comanded 
 untell the Battel of Gettysburg where he was kild which fought 
 the 2d day of July 1865. 
 
 Major R. F. Webb was then promoted to Col. who comanded 
 untell we was done at the Rapahanock Bridg the 7th of Nov. 
 1863. Our Regt when was captured belonged to General Hooks 
 Brigard Earlys Division Ewels Corps Leas Armey. 
 
 B. Y. Malone. 
 
THE PROVINCIAL AGENTS OF 
 NORTH CAROLINA 
 
 BY 
 SAMUEL JAMES ERVIN, JR. 
 
THE PROVINCIAL AGENTS OF 
 NORTH CAROLINA 
 
 A great obstacle to a successful and peaceful government in 
 North Carolina prior to the year 1748 was the lack of a medium 
 in England through which the representatives of the people in 
 the General Assembly could make known to the Crown and to 
 the home authorities the needs, circumstances and desires of 
 their constituents. This hindrance could be removed only by 
 the appointment of an agent to represent and transact the busi- 
 ness of the province at the various government boards in Eng- 
 land. Colonel Saunders sums up the duties and responsibilities 
 of such an agent admirably when he remarks : 
 
 To appreciate the importance of the agent's position it must 
 be remembered that the Crown had the right to pass upon all the 
 acts of the Legislature, and to repeal or "disallow" such as might 
 for any reason seem inexpedient. The proceedings in the case 
 were, in brief, as follows, viz : The act was, in the first instance, 
 sent by the Governor to the Secretary of State for America, by 
 whom it was laid before the Lords of the Board of Trade and by 
 them referred to the Reporting Counsel to the Board, to consider 
 and report whether or not the King ought to be advised to assent 
 to it. In practice, the fate of the act depended very much upon 
 the report of the Counsel, who, in turn, was very much guided 
 by the impressions he received as to the circumstances under 
 which the Provincial Assembly passed the act, the evils it was 
 intended to remedy, and the manner in which it was intended to 
 operate. All these things the agent, from his knowledge of 
 affairs in the Province, would be able to explain to the Counsel, 
 and in many ways not merely prevent unfavorable misapprehen- 
 sions on the part of the Counsel, but to lead his opinion to a 
 report favorable to the wishes of the Province. With the report 
 of their Counsel, the act came back to the Board of Trade where 
 it was considered, after notifying the agent to attend in all mat- 
 ters of consequence. With the report of the Board of Trade the 
 act then went to the Lords of the Privy Council, upon whose 
 final report its fate depended. These great officers also sought 
 their information in the premises not from private individuals, 
 but from these Provincial Agents, and without some person being 
 
64 James Sprunt Historical Publications 
 
 in England in that capacity in behalf of a Province, its affairs 
 "slept." Memorials, addresses, petitions and such like papers 
 passed through his hands. Every opening for the encouragement 
 of the trade of the Province, it was his business to improve it, 
 and equally so to endeavor to obviate any scheme that might 
 hurt it, and hence it was his duty to keep posted as to the inten- 
 tions of Government and of Parliament, all of which involved 
 much labor of various kinds and great responsibility. In a word, 
 the agent was to the colony what the ambassador was to a foreign 
 country. Now, from the very nature of the duties of the agent, 
 it is apparent that he was intended to be the representative not 
 of the Governor, but of the opposition, so that the authorities 
 "at home" in England might get both sides of the questions 
 presented to them. Otherwise, the representations made by the 
 Governor would have decided matters. 1 
 
 The first proposal that an agent should be appointed to repre- 
 sent North Carolina in England was made by Governor Burring- 
 ton in a speech to the Assembly in April, 1731. He declared that 
 it was "absolutely necessary" to select an agent and arrange a 
 regular salary for carrying on the public affairs of the province 
 in England. 2 Shortly afterwards he repeated his recommenda- 
 tion. 3 Burrington's efforts, however, came to naught and seven- 
 teen years elapsed before the step was finally taken. 
 
 In October, 1748, the General Assembly passed a law called 
 "An Act to appoint an Agent to solicit the Affairs of this Pro- 
 vince at the several Boards in England. ' ' James Abercromby, of 
 London, was chosen agent for a term of two years — from March 
 25, 1749, to March 25, 1751. He had already acted in this capa- 
 city, for the act provides that "the said James Abercromby, Esq., 
 in consideration of his trouble, charges and expenses, in trans- 
 acting the public business of this Province, as agent, to this time, 
 and until the twenty-fifth day of March, next ensuing, be and is 
 hereby allowed the sum of one hundred pounds, sterling. ' ' This, 
 however, was the first time that an agent was officially appointed 
 to act during a fixed term. Abercromby was granted a salary of 
 50£, sterling, annually. A committee, whose duty it was to cor- 
 respond with and direct and advise the agent, was also chosen. 
 
 1 Col. Rec, VI, vii-ix. 
 
 2 Col. Rec, III, 258. 
 
 3 Col. Rec, III, 280. 
 
The Provincial Agents of North Carolina 65 
 
 The committee of correspondence, as it was called, was composed 
 of Robert Halton and Eleazer Allen, of the Council, and Samuel 
 Swann, John Starkey and John Swann, of the House of Com- 
 mons. Whenever so ordered the committee should lay before the 
 Governor, Council and Assembly the correspondence which had 
 passed between it and the agent. 4 The mere fact that such able 
 and influential men served on the committee of correspondence 
 proves the great importance and responsibility of the office of 
 agent. 
 
 It having been "found very beneficial to the Province that a 
 proper person should, by public authority, solicit and represent 
 the affairs ' ' of the colony in England, and Abercromby 's term of 
 office having expired, the Assembly of 1751 re-enacted the agency 
 law of 1848 for a period of three years. Abercromby was retained 
 as agent and James Hasell and John Dawson, of the Council, 
 were selected to fill the vacancies in the committee of correspond- 
 ence occasioned by the deaths of Halton and Allen. The yearly 
 salary of 50£ had been found inadequate and was increased to 
 100£. The sum of 111£ 9s. and 2d. was allowed Abercromby as 
 compensation for extraordinary expenses incurred during his 
 first term. 5 
 
 In 1754 the agency act was extended again for a period of 
 three years. 6 Upon the termination of Abercromby 's third term 
 in 1757, the lower house was disinclined to appropriate any 
 money for public services, for taxes were already very burden- 
 some. Consequently no agent was appointed. 7 
 
 It would be monotonous to enumerate all of Abercromby 's 
 activities as agent. He performed several important services. 
 When McCulloch, Morris, Corbin, Dobbs and others attacked 
 Governor Johnston in 1749 and sought to compass his removal 
 from the governorship, Abercromby successfully defended the 
 Governor by cleverly delaying the proceedings before the Board 
 of Trade. 8 He produced strong arguments favorable to an im- 
 
 4 State Rec, XXIII, 303-304. 
 6 State Rec, XXIII, 362-363. 
 
 6 State Rec, XXIII, 399; State Rec, XXV, 266. 
 
 7 Col. Rec, V, 788-789, 928, 988. 
 
 8 Col. Rec, IV, 934-939, 942; Ashe, Hist, of N. C, 272. 
 
66 James Sprunt Historical Publications 
 
 portant quit rent law passed by the Assembly, which Lamb, the 
 Reporting Counsel to the Board of Trade, had disapproved. 
 Altogether, he discharged the functions of his office in a most 
 acceptable and efficient manner. In a letter to the Board of 
 Trade, dated April 13, 1758, he informed the board that he 
 was no longer agent for the colony and advised it to instruct 
 the Governor to recommend to the Assembly the passage of an 
 act to call in as much of the old paper currency as possible, to 
 be paid off by the share of North Carolina in the grants which 
 Parliament had made to reimburse the colonies for their appro- 
 priations and aid in the war then being carried on against 
 France and her Indian allies. 10 The suggestion contained much 
 wisdom, because the provincial currency was greatly depre- 
 ciated in value. 
 
 The Parliamentary grants were two in number. The first 
 was an appropriation of 200,000£, which was allotted to all of 
 the colonies for distribution. The second amounted to 50,000£, 
 which was to be distributed among the two Carolinas and Vir- 
 ginia. In November, 1758, the Assembly convened and entered 
 into a heated dispute with Governor Dobbs concerning the right 
 to dispose of the share of the colony in the Crown's bounties. 
 The house also contended that it had the right to name an agent 
 and the committee of correspondence. The Assembly and the 
 Governor were in utter disagreement. 11 
 
 A bill was introduced at this session for the location of the 
 seat of government at Tower Hill, near Stringer's Ferry, on the 
 Neuse — a site which Dobbs had chosen — and for the erection of 
 a state house, a secretary's office and a residence for the Gover- 
 nor should he decide to reside there. Another bill which was 
 introduced provided for the enlistment of three hundred soldiers 
 to serve against the French, the bringing over in specie of the 
 colony's share of the royal grants and putting the same into the 
 custody of the provincial treasurers, and for the appointment of 
 an agent. A committee of correspondence, composed entirely of 
 
 Col. Rec, V, 448-456. 
 
 10 Col. Rec, V, 928-929. 
 
 "Col. Rec, VI, x, 1-3; Ashe, Hist, of N. C, 294. 
 
The Provincial Agents of North Carolina 67 
 
 members from the lower house, was named in the bill and Aber- 
 cromby was to be the agent. 12 
 
 The Governor regarded the first bill as a scheme to persuade 
 him to give his assent to the second, and said that the lower 
 house would even have paid his house rent and the expenses 
 which he incurred in attending the Congress at Philadelphia in 
 order to obtain his approval of it. Dobbs also charged several 
 of the leaders of the house and the two treasurers with having 
 arranged a plan whereby they would get ' ' our proportion of the 
 sum which his Majesty had graciously recommended to Parlia- 
 ment to reimburse the southern colonies, which they expected 
 would be at least 15,000f , into their custody under the direction 
 of the Assembly, which they ruled, and so apply it as they 
 thought proper, without his Majesty or the Governor or the 
 Council's interfering in it." Dobbs objected to the bill on 
 the ground that it was an encroachment upon the rights of the 
 Governor and Council, and not in conformity to the powers of 
 the Assembly. He thought it improper and illegal to tack on 
 the aid bill the sections dealing with the appointment of an 
 agent and with the royal grants. He desired, however, to have 
 the bill locating the capitol at Tower Hill enacted. The mem- 
 bers of the Assembly declared that the bill which Dobbs wished 
 to pass should not pass unless the other bill went "hand and 
 glove" with it. 13 
 
 Being determined to defeat the one and to pass the other, 
 Dobbs resorted to a very clever stratagem. He instructed his 
 followers in the Council not to oppose the aid bill, except in 
 some insignificant matters of amendment until it had passed the 
 third reading in the house and had been sent to the upper house 
 for ratification. When both bills had passed the third reading 
 in the house, he made it clear to the members of the Council that 
 he desired the aid bill defeated by saying that he ' ' wanted their 
 advice whether to pass a bill of an extraordinary nature which 
 affected his Majesty's prerogative and the rights of the Gover- 
 nor and Council," and which was contrary to the instructions 
 
 12 Col. Rec, V, 1087; Col. Rec, VI, 1-3. 
 
 13 Col. Rec, VI, 1-3. 
 
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 which he had received from the authorities in England. The 
 strategy succeeded. The bill locating the capitol at Tower Hill 
 was passed, but the Council, under Dobbs' influence, deferred 
 action on the aid bill for several days, by which time the Gover- 
 nor was to prorogue the Assembly. Governor Dobbs described 
 the result in this manner : 
 
 Upon this disappointment the lower house were all in a 
 flame, the managers being greatly disappointed, and represented 
 to me that there must be a dissolution unless the upper house 
 would resume the bill, desiring I would speak to the Council to 
 revoke their resolution and pass the bill. 
 
 The Governor, of course, declined to interfere. He agreed 
 to join with the house in recommending that the money already 
 due Abercromby for his services as agent be paid out of the 
 Parliamentary grants. 14 Thereupon the lower house appointed 
 James Abercromby its own agent for two years with an annual 
 salary of 150£, to be paid out of the colony's portion of the 
 50,000£ bounty. Sam Swann, Thomas Barker, John Starkey, 
 George Moore and John Ashe, all members of the house, were 
 appointed committee of correspondence. The house adopted an 
 address congratulating the Crown upon the victories won from 
 the French and praying that a part of the sum allotted North 
 Carolina should be used in establishing free schools in each 
 county. Then Dobbs prorogued the Assembly. 15 
 
 At its next sitting the council chose Samuel Smith, of Lon- 
 don, Dobbs' private attorney, as agent. 16 The province now 
 had two agents, neither of whom legally occupied the office. An 
 agent appointed by one house only lacked authority and was 
 unable to represent the colony as it ought to have been repre- 
 sented. 
 
 In the spring of 1759, urgent calls for troops were made upon 
 Governor Dobbs, for the army in the North stood in dire need 
 of re-enforcements. Dobbs called the Assembly to meet at New- 
 bern on the 8th of May. 17 The house almost immediately passed 
 
 14 Col. Rec, VI, 2-3; Ashe, Hist, of N. C, 295. 
 
 16 Col. Rec, VI, 2-3, 9, 76; Ashe, Hist, of N. C, 295. 
 
 10 Col. Rec, VI, 77. 
 
 "Ashe, Hist, of N. C, 295. 
 
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 an aid bill similar to the one defeated by Dobbs at the pre- 
 ceding session. The forces of the province were to be increased 
 to three hundred men, exclusive of officers. An aid of 6,000£ 
 was to be granted for enlisting and maintaining this force, and 
 Abercromby was to be appointed agent. He was to present 
 documents to the English government showing the expense North 
 Carolina had been at in affording assistance against the enemy. 
 Upon being properly bonded, Abercromby was to receive from 
 the English authorities the portion of the 50,000£ grant assigned 
 to the province and transmit the same to the provincial treasurers 
 after deducting the sum due him for previous services and so 
 much as might be necessary to defray the cost of insurance and 
 shipment to the treasurers of the colony. The committee of cor- 
 respondence was to be composed entirely of members of the 
 lower house. 18 The council wished to amend the bill by elimi- 
 nating the sections which dealt with the appointment of an 
 agent. The house refusing to agree to the amendment, the coun- 
 cil declined to pass the bill and the session was adjourned with- 
 out any measures having been passed. 10 
 
 The Board of Trade disagreed with Dobbs in most of the 
 positions which he took in the controversy with the house. Al- 
 though it could not do otherwise than approve of his having de- 
 feated the bill, the Board informed Dobbs that the aid bill did 
 not lessen the Crown's prerogative to the extent he feared. The 
 Board affirmed the contentions of the lower house that the As- 
 sembly had the right to appropriate the funds granted the pro- 
 vince by Parliament and that it had the inherent right to name 
 the agent. Though it saw no reason for disapproving the bill 
 in its abstract principles, the Board ruled that the appointment 
 of an agent, being separate from the aid bill, ought to have been 
 provided for in a separate act and that the committee of cor- 
 respondence should have been composed of members of both 
 houses. 20 
 
 A new Assembly was called to meet in April, 1760. The chief 
 purpose for calling this meeting was to have an aid bill passed 
 
 18 Col. Rec, VI, 37-38, 102-103. 
 
 19 Ashe, Hist, of N. C, 295. 
 
 20 Col. Rec, VII, 54-55. 
 
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 so that the province might afford assistance in the military cam- 
 paigns then being planned. In his speech to the Assembly the 
 governor recommended the election of an agent to receive and 
 remit the share of the colony in the grants of the Crown. 21 
 Owing to the failure of the governor and the Assembly to agree 
 upon a suitable law establishing courts, there had been no courts 
 in the province for several months and much disorder had arisen 
 in Edgecombe, Halifax and Granville Counties. Being anxious 
 to pass a law establishing and regulating courts, the Assembly 
 determined not to pass an aid bill until an act creating superior 
 courts should be passed. Dobbs was equally resolved not to let 
 the house have its way. 22 
 
 The quarrel waxed warmer. On May 23, the house went into 
 a committee of the whole and resolved that if any member should 
 make known to any person the remarks of any member in any 
 debate or proceeding in the house, he should be expelled from 
 his seat as being unworthy of it. In this secret session, the Assem- 
 bly adopted twenty resolutions setting forth the arbitrary con- 
 duct of the governor. An address to the Crown was drawn up 
 complaining of abuses perpetrated by the governor, describing 
 the unsatisfactory conditions prevalent in the province and 
 declaring that Dobbs' influence over the council had prevented 
 the colony from having an agent in England. The address as- 
 serted that the real cause for the council's rejection of the aid 
 bill of the last session and of the governor's displeasure with it 
 was that it did not name as agent Dobbs' private attorney, Mr. 
 Smith. 23 
 
 Being brought to reason by the drastic action of the As- 
 sembly, Dobbs promised to assent to a court law which should 
 not be in force for more than two years unless ratified by the 
 Crown provided the Assembly passed an aid bill. The court bill 
 received the assent of the governor, but being dissatisfied with 
 some of the provisions of the aid bill and deeming it no longer 
 necessary, Dobbs refused to give his assent to it. 24 It seems that 
 
 21 Col. Rec, VI, 347. 
 
 22 Col. Rec, VI, 408-409; Ashe, Hist, of N. C, 287-298. 
 
 23 Col. Rec, VI, 409-415. 
 
 24 Ashe, Hist, of N. C, 298-299. 
 
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 Robert Jones, a lawyer, was selected as agent in the defeated aid 
 bill. 25 
 
 A.t the same time the council refused to approve a bill naming 
 Abercromby agent. 26 Thereupon the Assembly chose Anthony 
 Bacon, a merchant of London. 27 The council declined to sanc- 
 tion this selection and asked that five of its members be put upon 
 the committee of correspondence. It was also requested that all 
 business to be transacted with the agent must be approved by 
 three members of the committee from each house. Upon the 
 refusal of the house to amend the bill as proposed, the council 
 rejected it. 2S 
 
 The house appointed Bacon as its agent for a term of two 
 years and resolved "that Samuel Swann, John Starkey, George 
 Moore and John Ashe, or any three of them" constitute the 
 committee of correspondence. 29 
 
 Dobbs postponed the meeting of the Assembly until Septem- 
 ber. The beginning of hostilities between the Cherokees and the 
 frontiersmen rendered it imperative to call the meeting in mid- 
 summer. In this emergency measures were taken for the de- 
 fense of the colony. 30 The council tabled a bill providing for 
 the appointment of an agent. 31 
 
 At the next session of the Assembly, which was held in No- 
 vember, 1760, the house addressed the governor saying : 
 
 We flatter ourselves, had we been so fortunate as to have had 
 the concurrence of the other branches of the legislature in pass- 
 ing a law (more than once attempted) for appointing an agent 
 in London, who might have produced proper documents of our 
 expenses and represented our duty and zeal for his Majesty's 
 service (considering our circumstances), in their true light to 
 his Majesty's ministers, we should have been in expectation of 
 partaking of his Majesty's royal grace and favour out of the 
 first 200,000£ granted by Parliament to the colonies, and of 
 
 25 Col. Rec, VI, 297. 
 
 20 Col. Rec, VI, 423, 424. 
 
 27 Col. Rec, VI, 429. 
 
 28 Col. Rec, VI, 423-424. 
 
 29 Col. Rec, VI, 436. 
 
 30 Ashe, Hist, of N. C, 301. 
 
 21 Col. Rec, VI, 444. 
 
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 which Virginia has received 20,546£ as her proportion exclusive 
 of 32,268£ and 19s. out of the 50,000£ grant ; whereas the whole 
 coming to this Province is not more than 7,789£ Is. Id. sterling ; 
 and even out of which, there is a demand of 1,000£, as j^our 
 Excellency informs us, that was advanced by Lord Loudoun, and 
 Mr. Shirley, to pay the forces at New York notwithstanding a 
 sufficient fund raised by this Province ; and therefore we can- 
 not help being of opinion that the small part of his Majesty's 
 royal bounty coming to this Colony is apparently owing to the 
 want of an agent to represent our dutiful behaviour to his 
 Majesty and his ministers. 32 
 
 The fact that North Carolina did not have an agent in Eng- 
 land was due to Dobbs' defeat of the various aid bills whereby 
 an agent would have been appointed. North Carolina had ex- 
 pended about 66,000£ in assisting in waging the war. More than 
 half of this amount had been spent for services outside the pro- 
 vince and the colony had justly expected to receive a consider- 
 able amount of the royal grants. Dobbs' persistent refusal to 
 concur in the appointment of an agent resulted in great financial 
 loss to the colony. 33 
 
 Following the address of the house to the governor, both 
 houses passed an act which granted an aid for operations against 
 the enemy and appointed Bacon agent to lay before the English 
 authorities documents showing the expense the colony had in- 
 curred in the war. 34 This act was disapproved of by the gover- 
 nor. He adjourned the Assembly for two days that it might 
 reconsider and expunge the "foreign" clauses and name an 
 agent who would not be objectionable to him. This advice was 
 accompanied by a threat to dissolve the Assembly. 35 
 
 In a committee of the whole, the house resolved that the 
 naming of an agent was its inherent right and that the appoint- 
 ment of an agent at that time, even if inserted in an aid bill, 
 was not inconsistent with the services of the Crown. An address 
 was presented to Dobbs in which these resolutions were reiter- 
 
 32 Col. Rec, VI, 477. 
 
 33 Col. Rec, VI, ix-x. 
 
 34 Col. Rec, VI, 463. 
 36 Col. Rec, VI, 515. 
 
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 ated and in which the house stated that its members regretted 
 that the governor's private resentment against whomever it 
 named as agent should frustrate all efforts to unite with Vir- 
 ginia and South Carolina in an attack upon the Cherokees. The 
 house refused to strike Bacon's name out of the bill. 30 The bill 
 was re-introduced and passed the third reading in each house, 
 but did not become law because Dobbs dissolved the Assembly 
 before it was presented for his approval. 37 The dangers of an 
 Indian invasion had ceased by this time. 38 
 
 The new Assembly convened at Wilmington in March, 1761, 
 and upbraided the governor for his defeat of the aid bill and for 
 not calling the Assembly to meet at a more convenient place. 39 
 Both sides, however, were now willing to yield something in 
 order to accomplish their respective ends. 
 
 A bill appropriating 20,000£, proclamation money, for the 
 enlistment and support of five hundred soldiers and naming 
 Cuchet Jouvencal, of Westminister, England, agent was passed. 
 John Swann, Lewis deRossett, and Maurice Moore, of the coun- 
 cil, and Samuel Swann, John Ashe, John Starkey, Cornelius 
 Harnett and Francis Corbin, of the house, were appointed to 
 constitute the committee of correspondence. 40 The house re- 
 frained from selecting Bacon merely to obtain the assent of the 
 governor. 41 The council advised Dobbs to assent to the act and 
 having done so, the governor dissolved the Assembly. 42 
 
 Meanwhile the Board of Trade informed Dobbs that he had 
 no right to interfere in the nomination of an agent by the As- 
 sembly and that although naming an agent in the aid bill which 
 he had rejected at the last session was irregular, the necessity 
 of the times rendered the irregularity too trivial a reason for 
 rejecting a law which would have been beneficial to the Crown 
 and to the province. 43 
 
 Sir Matthew Lamb, Reporting Counsel to the Board, criticised 
 
 30 Col. Rec, VI, 515-517. 
 
 37 Col. Rec, VI, 518-519. 
 
 38 Ashe, Hist, of N. C, 301. 
 30 Ashe, Hist, of N. C, 302. 
 
 40 State Rec, XXIII, 539-541. 
 
 41 Col. Rec, VI, 692. 
 
 42 Col. Rec, VI, 633-634, 694. 
 
 43 Col. Rec, VI, 539. 
 
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 the tacking on to the aid bill of the clauses nominating Jouvencal 
 agent as being irregular. 44 Thereupon the Board instructed 
 Dobbs to recommend the appointment of an agent in a separate 
 bill when Jouvencal 's term should expire. 45 
 
 At the session early in 1764, John Starkey introduced a bill 
 to continue the agency of Jouvencal for eighteen months, but 
 the quarrel between the two houses concerning the membership 
 of the correspondence committee caused the failure of the 
 measure. 40 By their own authority the house appointed Jou- 
 vencal its agent and named as committee of correspondence 
 John Ashe, John Starkey, Cornelius Harnett, Francis Corbin 
 and Maurice Moore. 47 
 
 Later in the year the Assembly made another effort to have 
 an agent appointed with the concurrence of the governor and 
 council. Thomas Barker, an eminent resident of the colony, was 
 chosen by the house, but the council substituted another person 
 in his place. 4S When the lower house reinserted the name of 
 Thomas Barker in the bill, the council rejected it. 49 The As- 
 sembly took vengeance on the council by refusing to appropriate 
 1,000£ to pay Samuel Smith who had been named as agent of 
 the province by the governor and the council in 1759. The 
 house correctly decided that Smith had never been the agent of 
 the province. 50 
 
 The inability of the different branches of the government to 
 agree upon the choice of an agent had already worked much woe 
 to the affairs of the province before the governmental authori- 
 ties of England. The council and the governor were in the 
 wrong, for the Board of Trade had declared that the power of 
 naming an agent was vested in the Assembly. It seems that the 
 Board of Trade recognized the agents appointed solely by the 
 house during the time of the quarrel. 
 
 In May, 1765, the house refused to submit to the council the 
 
 "Col. Rec, VI, 748. 
 
 45 Col. Rec, VI, 702-703. 
 
 46 Col. Rec, VI, 1134, 1136, 1137, 1214. 
 « Col. Rec, VI, 1214. 
 
 48 Col. Rec, VI, 1287-1288. 
 
 *° Col. Rec, VI, 1240. 
 
 00 Col. Rec, VI, 1251-1252, 1313, 1316-1317. 
 
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 letters and papers which it had received from Jouvencal since 
 the last sitting of the legislature. Governor Tryon wrote the 
 Board of Trade that the Assembly's agent ought not to be 
 recognized by the Board unless the house would permit some 
 members of the council to serve on the correspondence com- 
 mittee. 51 
 
 The Assembly continued the agency of Jouvencal for one 
 year. 52 The Board of Trade accepted Tryon 's advice and no 
 member of the council having been placed upon the committee of 
 correspondence, refused to recognize the agent. No agent was 
 appointed from this time until 1768. 53 
 
 The gist of the quarrel was that the council denied the 
 Assembly the right of naming the agent, while the house refused 
 to allow the council a proper share in the committee of corre- 
 spondence. 
 
 In 1767, Henry Eustace McCulloch, a member of the council 
 then residing in England, offered his services as agent to the 
 colony. 54 
 
 An attempt to elect an agent early in the following year 
 failed. 55 
 
 Towards the end of the year, the house, by a resolve appoint- 
 ed McCulloch agent with John Harvey, Joseph Montfort, 
 Samuel Johnston, Joseph Hewes and Edward Vail as the corre- 
 spondence committee. 56 
 
 Parliament having adopted the plan of taxing the colonies to 
 help raise funds to pay the war debt, the Assembly drew up an 
 address protesting against such taxation. In writing to McCul- 
 loch, the committee of correspondence characterized Parliamen- 
 tary taxation as "totally unconstitutional and destructive of the 
 natural right of mankind. ' ' McCulloch was instructed to assure 
 the king, the ministry and Englishmen in general of the loyalty 
 of North Carolina to the Crown, to present the address of the 
 Assembly to the king, to cooperate with the agents of other 
 
 51 Col. Rec, VI, 107. 
 
 62 Col. Rec, VI, 60, 87. 
 
 63 Ashe. Hist, of N. C, 312. 
 
 54 Col. Rec, VII, 517-518. 
 
 55 Col. Rec, VII, 641. 
 66 Col. Rec, VII, 973. 
 
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 colonies in obtaining the repeal of the act imposing internal 
 taxes on America and to work for the repeal of the law of 
 Parliament which forbade the colonies to issue paper money. 57 
 Samuel Johnston considered the address too submissive and 
 with Joseph Hewes declined to serve on the committee of corre- 
 spondence. 58 
 
 The dissatisfaction among the people on the frontier of the 
 province resulted in the formation of the Regulation movement. 
 In October, 1769, in a petition to the legislature setting forth 
 their grievances, the Regulators of Anson County asked that 
 "Doctor Benjamin Franklin or some other known patriot" be 
 appointed agent of the colony in England. 59 
 
 McCulloch informed the Assembly that its address had reach- 
 ed its destination and that he would gladly carry out the in- 
 structions given him. 60 
 
 Tryon was authorized to sanction the appointment of an 
 agent elected by both houses to represent the affairs of the pro- 
 vince before the authorities in England. The critical relations 
 subsisting between the colonies and the mother country ren- 
 dered it necessary that an agent should be appointed in such a 
 manner as to give him unmistakable authority. Otherwise, the 
 interests of the colony would be doomed to delay and disap- 
 pointment. 01 
 
 In the autumn of 1769, the two houses appointed H. E. 
 McCulloch agent for a term of two years with an annual salary 
 of 200£ sterling. Lewis Henry de Rossett, Alexander McCul- 
 loch and Robert Palmer, of the council, and John Harvey, Joseph 
 Montfort, Edward Vail, John Campbell and Benjamin Harvey, 
 of the house, were selected as the committee of correspondence. 62 
 Tryon approved the act. 63 
 
 Late in 1771, McCulloch was re-appointed for an additional 
 term of two years and the committee of correspondence was com- 
 
 57 Col. Rec, VII, 877-879. 
 
 68 Ashe, Hist, of N. C, 347-348. 
 
 69 Col. Rec, VIII, 78. 
 
 60 Col. Rec, VIII, 55-57. 
 
 01 Col. Rec, VII, 868. 
 
 02 State Rec, XXV, 518. 
 
 03 Col. Rec, VIII, 151. 
 
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 posed of members from both houses. 04 McCulloch was the last 
 agent to represent the colony in the mother country. Being 
 familiar with the situation in the province and in England, he 
 was well qualified to render the colony much service. This he 
 did. 
 
 As we have seen, the office of agent was of vast importance 
 and responsibility. The constant bickering between the lower 
 house and the governor and between the house and the council 
 resulted in much loss and damage to the interests of the pro- 
 vince in England. 
 
 64 State Rec, XXIII, 854. 
 
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