Moscow. Orders were
sent to Captain to have two best non-commissioned officers to report at Colonel
Powell's headquarters by 8 A. M. Sergt. A. J. Hood and Corporal Hauxhurst were
sent, acting as orderlies. Tent moved back. The whole camp policed. 2 o'clock
the howitzers (3rd and 5th pieces) were ordered out on picket duty without
caissons, one extra horse.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd
Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 14
Rienzi. Was another
repetition of that a week ago only on a little larger scale. The horses were
harnessed at 1 A. M. and we went out on the Ripley road three quarters of a
mile, laid there half an hour waiting for the enemy, then filed left on our
drilling ground, drilled half an hour, then came home and unharnessed. Received
new gun carriages and caissons in the afternoon. Report of another great battle
at Iuka in which 1000 of our men were killed in twenty-five minutes. Colonel
Murphy of the 8th put under arrest for withdrawing his men. Stood guard duty.
SOURCE: Jenkin Lloyd
Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, p. 6-7
