Monday, April 11, 2022

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Friday, September 20, 1861

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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