Up long before sunrise and prepared for the scout. At 6 A.
M. reported to Gen. Salomon. Wanted us to go 30 miles for coal! Boys all mad.
When two miles from Carthage, men fired upon the wagons and us from the brush.
Drew up into line but they did not show themselves. Passed through Carthage.
Kansas train fired upon. Twelve men went back and met them. Reached the coal
pit 13 miles west of C., about dark. Bunked with Capt. Nettleton. Rained next morning
at 2 A. M. Went to wagon. Got quite wet. Saw Miss Hood and Shirley at their
doors. Heard artillery firing. Proved to be a battle at Newtonia between a
reconnoitering party of 500 and against 7,000 rebels. 2nd Ohio Battery covered
itself with glory.
SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman
Harris Tenney, p. 34
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