Thursday, October 20, 2022

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Sunday, November 17, 1861

Having blockaded the roads over the mountains near Jacksborough, and believing the fortifications at Cumberland Gap very strong, our General did not think an army train of the enemy could pass the mountains anywhere between the Pound Gap, in Virginia, and Jacksborough, a distance of about one hundred and twenty miles.1 Therefore, leaving orders for his brigade to take up the line of march again the next morning in the direction of Wartburg, General Zollicoffer went in person to Knoxville to obtain more definite information of the state of things along the line of the railroad and among the tories generally.
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1 Rebellion Records, Vol. IV., p. 244.

SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, p. 81-

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