After cooking three
days' rations, we struck tents and loaded our wagons. The wagons were sent to
Booneville, twelve miles from Jacinto, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. McNairy
moved his men back to Jacinto, and quartered them in the various unoccupied
houses. Allison's Company had splendid quarters in the court-house. Two scouts
were sent out, one to Burnsville, the other to Glendale, six miles west of the
former place, on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Found no Federals. We
remained at Jacinto for some days, scouting and picketing.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, p. 167
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