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Samaria McKnight moving
Samaria and his wife had to move but if they moved it would not be to far it would only be to Camp Denison.[https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/life-civil-war-soldier-camp] -
fighting in the war
Whenever he was fighting in the War he fought the North. [https://usacac.army.mil/sites/default/files/documents/cace/DCL/DCL_SmallUnitCohesion.pdf] -
finding goods for children
He was trying to find goods for children but couldn't find them whenever he was battling in the war.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_use_of_children_in_World_War_II] -
moving
Whenever they moved they had no one living around them so it was lonely. That day they didn't even shower. couldn't even communicate with anyone.[https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/winter-encampments] -
Geysers Company
The Geysers company got shot up. [https://www.history.com/topics/landmarks/spindletop] -
one of his friends sending his wife a horse
One of his friends sent his wife a horse which was 140,000 dollars.[https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/the-horses-of-war/] -
Samaria McKnight letters
He had written 4 letters and he wrote them to john Susan and Mary Jane but he didn't get any responses back from either of them.[https://content.lib.washington.edu/civilwarweb/index.html] -
His friends getting sick
Many of his friends were sick during the war so he had no one to go see.
[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8513069/#:~:text=Pneumonia%2C%20typhoid%2C%20diarrhea%2Fdysentery,in%20halting%20several%20major%20campaigns.] -
weapons
Whenever they were in the war before the could cross the river again they had to get weapons not just any weapon but the best weapons so they wouldn't lose.[https://www.middlecreek.org/civil-war-weapons/] -
soldiers deaths
there were several soldiers buried on January 9th 1863. [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/civil-war-toll-up-by-20-percent-in-new-estimate.html#:~:text=For%20110%20years%2C%20the%20numbers,any%20war%20in%20American%20history.] -
Things they wear in their company
They wear horns because they are the best company in the camp.[https://www.civilwaracademy.com/civil-war-technology] -
Going to Camp
Samaria was the leader of the camp and so he has sent some of the boys to scout down in the Rockcastle and then they wanted 12 more men so they had to send them in the morning. One of his men had been Bushwhacked and wounded in the arm. His name was Jenkins.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Dennison]