Sunday, December 10, 2023

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Friday, February 7, 1862

As Colonel Statham passed Mr. Allison's he ordered our company to go on in advance of his brigade toward Carthage. Going six miles, where the brigade camped for the night, we were overtaken with a dispatch from Colonel McNairy ordering us back to Livingston.

Going back to Mr. Allison's, we there met another dispatch from Colonel McNairy ordering us to halt, as the order for our battalion to go to Livingston had been countermanded. So we put up for the night with Mr. Allison. The rest of the battalion passed us, some of them going as far as Chestnut Mound.

SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, p. 130


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