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Collection: BARNES, E. T., DIAHT
Hertford County, North Carolina
1861-1865
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Physical Description: Diary (typescript). 1 item.
Acquisition: Gift of F. Roy Johnson, Murfreesboro, North Carolina
1963, January 10
Description: R. T. Barnes enlisted from Hertford County, May 2b, 1862,
member of Company C, l?th Regiment (infantry), promoted to first
sergeant.
Barnes' ten-page diary (1861-1865) describes in some
detail joining the Hertford Light Infantry in June, 1861, the dinner
given the Company on the eve of its departure for Ocracoke, their
send-off by girls from the Methodist College and Baptist Institute,
and departure on board the "Curlew" for Edenton and Portsmouth,
In November the company was ordered to Washington and stayed there'
several months before returning and re-enlisting. After re-enlistment
and a short period at Camp Mangum, Raleigh, Barnes outlines his
progress to eastern North Carolina, Virginia, back to North Carolina,
to Petersburg, Richmond, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, arri again to
Richmond. The last pages contain a. list of "exorbitant prices" in
1862 in North Carolina and Virginia, bounty and wages received from
the State and the ■ Confederacy in 1861 and. 1862, some miscellaneous
personal accounts, a brief essay entitled "A Bad Feeling or Hard
Times," and a list of "good mottos."