Gen. Zollicoffer ordered
Col. McNairy to go with his battalion on a reconnoitering expedition as far as
London.
As soon as his men
could prepare two days' rations, McNairy set out from Camp Buckner about 10:30
A. M., and, after, a ride of about forty miles, he drew rein a little after
midnight, within two miles of London. Our advance guard, going on to that
place, returned and reported no enemy there. We then took a nap of some two or
three hours.
SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's
Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, p. 53
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