Our regiment*
mounted and moved out toward Marietta, at which place they halted for the
night.
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* As I was badly
poisoned with poison oak vine I did not go on the above named scout, but
remained with the wagons, which, for safety, were moved about seven miles
nearer the railroad, where they remained until the 16th; then they were moved
back and met the regiment near the old camp, half mile west of the Tombigbee.
About this time
General Beauregard went to Bladen Springs, Alabama, on account of ill health,
leaving General Bragg in command of the army, now in the vicinity of Tupelo,
Mississippi, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, pp. 199
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