Sunday, December 25, 2022

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Friday, November 22, 1861

Now being anxious to go forward in advance of the brigade, to overtake Colonel Stanton in order to ascertain whether he had put his command in motion, as directed on the 20th, or not, Zollicoffer sent a messenger back to Wartburg that morning after Captain Allison's Company,* which had been stationed at that place since the 17th, while he moved on with the brigade to Jamestown.

Captain Allison set out from Wartburg with about twenty-five of his company immediately after the arrival of the above-named messenger, and by a forced march arrived at Zollicoffer's headquatters, at Jamestown, a little after dark—distance, about thirty-five miles.

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* Zollicoffer had no regular escort. The writer, as well as the rest of Allison's Company, moved with the First Battalion.

SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, p. 83

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