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the company surgeon. Nicol was “kept in tent in camp as he was nearly dead, ordered to hospital and died immediately after his arrival. Death caused in my opinion by wilfull neglect of duty by the surgeon of this regiment during my absence to Richmond on detached service,” Massie recorded.
James Norman was rated as “good and true”. James Racer was “good, but intemperate.” Elijah Riley was “good, but mischievous.” Of John Scroggins, Massie had extra words of praise: “wounded by a piece of spent shell in Battle 18 July but went on duty 19th July, in battle 21st. Has always been with company. No better soldier or man in county.”
Of Posey M. Whalen, Massie writes: “In battle of the 18th, severely wounded in battle of the 21st. Arm shattered. Good, one of the best soldiers in the army. Wound has prevented his return to company.” The practical Massie noted, however, that “he lost his rifle when wounded.”
One soldier, William I. Huff, was so highly thought of by Massie that he used him as a standard. The captain said that Huff was “a good soldier, a very good man, moral.” Thereafter, whenever Massie wanted to praise a man, he said he was “like Huffy.”
George Hartley was the “same as Huffy - moral.” John W. Johnson was “like Huff—reads his Bible.” Stephen Jenkins was the “same as Huff, but quiet.” Also the “same as Huff’ was William B. Kendall.
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