Captain McKnight was
sent with his squad to relieve Parrish's Company at Marietta. As it was a very
rainy time we took shelter in a schoolhouse about two miles from Marietta, on
the Fulton road. Our picket stand was in town.
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* General
Breckinridge had been sent to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the latter part of
June, with a portion of Bragg's army, and perhaps some had been sent to other
points, but Bragg was now transferring the main portion of his army from
Tupelo, Mississippi, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to confront General Buell, who,
after the battle of Shiloh, had been ordered back into Middle Tennessee.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate
Cavalry, p. 203-4
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