After moving on up
within ten miles of Jacinto (about thirty from camps) Colonel Barteau learned
that the Federals were at Marietta, in his rear. Thinking that they were
attempting to cut him off, and if possible capture his whole regiment, he
turned to the right, crossed the Tombigbee, and came down on the east side to
Fulton, where he remained for the night. Colonel Barteau thus gave the Federals
a complete dodge, and returned unmolested.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, pp. 200
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