According to orders from brigade headquarters, Captain Allison's Company was detached from First Battalion, and proceeded from Jacksborough to Wartburg. Morgan County, where they arrived the next day, and remained there until the brigade came up. Allison was instructed to keep a sharp lookout for tories, and guard any stores that might be sent to that point from Knoxville for the brigade.
SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's
Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, p. 80-1
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