We learned after
dark that the Federals were at Burnsville. So McKnight's Company was sent out
to re-enforce the picket on the Burnsville road. The company lay in ambush all
night a few hundred yards behind the picket.* The rest of the battalion were
sent out on other roads leading out in the direction of Burnsville and
Glendale. But no enemy made their appearance.
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* How vivid "to
my memory still" is that night! The pickets were stationed thus: B. A.
Hancock, in front; W. W. Hawkins, a few paces to the rear; while I was a few
paces to the rear of Hawkins. We expected to be relieved, as the custom was, in
two hours. But we were very much disappointed and somewhat chagrined at having
to sit there on our horses all that long night. Do not remember of doing the
like any more during the war.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History
of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, p. 170
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