Being ordered to
move his battalion to Cumberland Ford, Colonel McNairy set out from Camp
Cummings, near Knoxville, about six P. M., with Harris's (A), Payne's (D), and
Allison's (E) companies, and aster a march of thirteen miles he camped for the
night. The other two companies (B and C) were ordered to follow in about three
days.1
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1 As I was yet quite feeble, having just
recovered from an attack of measles, brother Ben and I put up only three miles
from town.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, p. 44
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