Statham's Brigade (except McNairy's Battalion*) with their baggage left by rail for Corinth, Mississippi.
The wagons belonging to the two brigades did not go through
by rail, but were taken through by their teams. After a march of about twenty
miles McNairy's Battalion camped for the night in a beautiful lot within four
miles of Courtland.
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* Our battalion had been with the above named brigade about six months, but we were here separated from the true, the noble, and the BRAVE soldiers who composed that brigade to be united with them no more during the war. Perhaps there were but few, if any, better brigades in the Confederate service than Zollicoffer's, and afterward Statham's Brigade.
SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, p. 137
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