Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Wednesday, February 12, 1862

The battalion met at Chestnut Mound again to drill, after which we scattered out to hunt lodging places for the night, for our company still had neither tents nor cooking vessels. Only about ninety-five of our battalion had returned to camps to date. In place of going on to Carthage, as we expected, Colonel Statham, being in front, turning to the left, moved his brigade down and went into camp on the east bank of Caney Fork River near Trousdale's Ferry.

SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, p. 131-2

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