The men who did most of the fighting were a detail from the 25th NC Reg as brave men as ever drew a trigger #cw150

Monday 26^th October 1863

I made another dress for Gus today. No news from Warm Springs. The fight was to come off today but Gen. Vance did not attack them on the road leading from Asheville to Warm Springs as the program was but sent a courier to Col. Sam Bryson who was in the Spring Creek road. The courier did not get there before Col. Bryson had fought & had to fall back. We lost 5 killed & two wounded. Our forces fought well. The loss of the enemy not known. The men who did most of the fighting were a detail from the 25^th NC Reg as brave men as ever drew a trigger. They were under the immediate command of Lt. Welch of Haywood. Harried went to Asheville today. Mr. Cook making shoes. Nothing from Mr. Henry today. I hope he is safe.

Tuesday 27^th [October 1863]

I cut out a good deal of work today. Willie three shirts, Zona two night caps, myself one, Gus a new dress & Pinck a pair drawers of the c loth Betsey wove. I sent & got 10 yds. of shirting, unbleached, for which I paid twenty dollars & two Lbs. of soda for 10$. That is certainly a big price. Harrie got them today in Asheville. Mr. Henry came home this evening. I was very glad to see him. He has to go again in the morning. I am sorry of that. I have asked my heavenly Father to take care of him & I feel He will. I sewed some on Pinck’s drawers today. Cook still making shoes. He will go off with Mr. Henry in the morning. The children all have shoes & some of the negroes.

Wednesday 28^th [October 1863]

Mr. Henry & Cook left about 8 o’clock this morning. I felt very sad but such is the fate of the war. Henry Cook & his mother took dinner here today, also Aunt Patsey Jamison. I finished Pinck’s drawers soon after dinner & Began a  haversack for Mr. Henry of oil cloth. Four soldiers (Vicksburg prisoners) stay here tonight. They say Mr. Henry left Asheville just after three o’clock today. He wrote me a note by them telling me to take them in if I liked. They are very genteel looking men.

Source: Diary of Cornelia Henry in Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journal and Letters of the Henry Family. Clinard, Karen L. and Russell, Richard, eds. (Asheville, NC: Reminiscing Books, 2008).

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Mr. Henry…home tonight with a corpse from the 25th reg. unit #cw150

Tuesday 4^th [March 1862]

I made some tatten till near dinner & then cut me out two chemise. I went to Mrs. Fanning’s in the evening. I hemmed a frill for one chemise. I heard today that Mr. Henry would be home tonight with a corpse from the 25^th reg. unit, a young Chris Coffle of Haywood. He leaves a wife but no little ones to mourn his loss.  Tom & Frady, the man that hauled him came this evening. Mr. Henry will be at home the last of the week. They brought in my pretty statue for little Cora’s grave.* All are well. Nothing new going on.

*Cora was born to Cornelia in 1857 and she died before her first birthday in 1858.  It has taken 4 years to get the gravesite marked. 

Source: Diary of Cornelia Henry in Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journal and Letters of the Henry Family. Clinard, Karen L. and Russell, Richard, eds. (Asheville, NC: Reminiscing Books, 2008).

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