Thomas Smith wrote six diaries. I think #5 is missing. Diary #1- 1854 move from Tuscumbia, Alabama to Texas. Diary #2- 1856 trip from Van Zandt county, Texas to Tennessee. Diary #3 civil war from October 19, 1862 to January 14, 1863. Diary #4 civil war from January 15, 1863 to May 17, 1863. Diary #6 civil war from Febuary 15, 1864 to April 29, 1864.

From Wednesday April 27, 1864 Smith's hand writing is very scrawley, and he seems most incoherent. At the end of the diary is a note: Capt Smith died at the town of Princeton, Ark. May the 9th 1864 with pneumonia

(Another hunting note here) On the trip through Arkansas in 1854 they killed a couple of deer and found a bee tree cut it down for honey. They crossed the Red River into Texas May 10, 1854 and on May 11 their party killed 17 squirrels. Thomas says "I killed seven myself". They also found another bee tree, he says "I cut and got as much as all could eat".

Yes its a family's diary, but its not my family.