Friday, April 12, 2024

Diary of Private Richard R. Hancock: Tuesday, March 4, 1862

Johnston dispatched thus to the Secretary of War from Shelbyville:

My army will move beyond this to-day on the road to Decatur. One brigade remains here to protect the stores until they are shipped south.


I will be at the telegraph office at Fayetteville to-morrow morning to receive any communications.*

After a march of about fifteen miles on the Fayetteville pike, we went into camps in a beautiful woods, where we had plenty of wood for fires.

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*Rebellion Records, Vol. VII., p. 917.

SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, p. 135

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