It was reported in
camps about sundown that the Federals were tearing up the railroad about five
miles west of Burnsville. A squad of us mounted and rode out in that direction
far enough to learn that the Federals were surely there. As we did not wish to
attack about eleven hundred in the dark, we went back to camps. We then moved
our camps about two miles from Burnsville, on the Jacinto road, where we
remained the rest of the night.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, p. 167
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