Sunday, April 9, 2023

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Tuesday, December 31, 1861

Going on in advance of the wagons, we got to Camp West a little after noon.  The wagons did not get to Mill Springs until late that evening.

Zollicoffer now had seven regiments of infantry, three battallions and four companies of cavalry, and two batteries (fourteen guns) of artillery. Total present for duty, six thousand one hundred and fifty-four; aggregate present and absent, eight thousand four hundred and fifty-one.1
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1 Rebellion Records, Vol. VII, p. 814

SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, p. 104-5

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