According to orders
from our General, Colonel McNairy, setting out from his camp, five miles south
of Albany, with about seventy-five of his battalion, went to the Cumberland
above Burkesville. When our advance guard got in sight of the river a boat was
crossing to the north bank with seven men and five horses. As a portion of the
men were Federal soldiers, a skirmish ensued, in which the ferryman and one
soldier were wounded. None of our boys were hurt. The ferryman, who lived on
the south side of the river, brought his boat back to our side. We destroyed two
ferry-boats and two canoes at that ferry, and one boat at another. McNairy
allowed his men to scatter in order to hunt quarters for the night. The writer
and about twenty-four others put up with our wounded ferryman, who lived half a
mile from the river.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, p. 87-8
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