According to orders
from General Zollicoffer, Colonel McNairy went out to Burkesville with a scout
of seventy-six men. The writer had sufficiently recovered to be able to go with
that scout.
Burkesville, the
county seat of Cumberland County, is on the north bank of the Cumberland River,
some eighteen miles north-west from Albany. McNairy bivouacked on the south
bank of the river, opposite to Burkesville. He threw a few of his men across
the river, but they found no enemy in town.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, p. 85-6
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