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.
* 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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