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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