Came to Bell Buckle
this morning and from there to Wartrace, our infantry falling back to
Tullahoma. Went a short distance beyond Wartrace; 11th Texas and 4th Georgia
skirmished with them a little; a few wounded. We came to Duck River and camped.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 19
Start at 3 o'clock
for the wagons at Yankeetown. All horses unfit for duty sent there under Lieut.
Gibson of 11th Texas. Regiment went to Rock Island. We came in fifteen miles of
Sparta and camped. Men and lame horses straggled all along the road for miles.
I and McFarlan bunked together.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 14
