The head of the
column advanced to a point some six or seven miles beyond London, on the road
leading to Wildcat, but, for want of water, subsistence and forage, had to
return to the wagon train, about four miles beyond London.
Zollicoffer's
advance had another skirmish with the enemy's picket, resulting in the killing
of one man on each side.
After marching in
the rear of the wagon train to within eight miles of London, Colonel McNairy
was ordered to move his battalion to the front. On reaching our General's
headquarters, about nightfall, encamped, as above named, some four miles from
town, McNairy was ordered to send out scouting parties on both sides of the
London—Wildcat road. Accordingly, a part of our battalion went southwest in the
direction of Somerset, while Allison's Company went back to London, and thence
about nine miles north-east in the direction of Booneville, capturing two men,
two muskets and three horses on the way. Finding no organized force in that
direction, Allison returned, by the way of London, to camp, some three miles
from town, about daybreak next morning. Here the road forked—the lest, leading
by the way of Wildcat, Mount Vernon and Crab Orchard, to Camp Dick Robinson,
and the right, to Richmond. We were now within ten miles of Wildcat.
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