Thursday, October 8, 2026

Diary of 2nd Sergeant Richard R. Hancock, Saturday, July 26, 1862

Captain McKnight, with fifteen of his company, left camps with orders to scout north of Bay Springs. Passing by that place he bivouacked three miles beyond, on the Iuka road.

SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, p. 203

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