Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Thursday, August 15, 1861

Seventy-five of our battalions set out from Camp Schuyler to go to Knoxville, about forty miles east, with some prisoners. They returned the 17th.

The measles broke out in camp while at Camp Schuyler.*
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* J. C. McAdoo and brother Will (Company E) had the measles, and went home from this camp. Brother Ben went with them.

SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, p. 36

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