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Diary Notes from Witt's 10th Inf Co C pg 1

These are notes from my Grandfather's diary (Capt. Thomas Jefferson Morrison)10th Infantry Company C of Witt's Rgt. This one page lists various battles, losses etc. Where I have [] the text is not legible....am working from copies, the original is in a safty deposit box.

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[ ] fight on Hogan at Herrons. Capt Thompson killed.
Jan 18th 1864
21st at Dover, Pope County, Ark.
30 March at Mt. Elby [Mount Elba], Bradly Co.
13 April at Prairie de Ann, Hempstead Co, Ark.
18th Maxies fight – Washita Co Ark. At Poison Springs. Captured two Hundred wagons and
Teams. Killed four Hundred Negroes, One Hundred Yankees and took one hundred prisoners.
April 25th Genl. Fagan’s Fight at Marks Mill, Bradley Co. Ark. Captured the [Rise} of two hundred wagons and teams, Eleven Hundred and [sixty-one] prisoners, two hundred killed and wounded. Our loss small.
Gen. Kirby Smith’s Fight on the 30th of April, Jenkins Ferry, Saline River, Dallas County, Ark.
Yankees stampeded. Killed & wounded [ ]

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