We had orders to cook three days' rations, and be ready to take up the line of march by three o'clock P. M., but as it was pay-day, ...

Our regiment* mounted and moved out toward Marietta, at which place they halted for the night. _______________ * As I was badly poisoned w...

After moving on up within ten miles of Jacinto (about thirty from camps) Colonel Barteau learned that the Federals were at Marietta, in his ...

The regiment crossed the river and encamped half mile from it. They reported  that the   Federals were moving east toward Chattanooga in lar...

The regiment recrossed the river and encamped in sight of Fulton, in a beautiful bottom on the west side of town. SOURCE: Richard R. Hanco...

A scout went out and burned a lot  of  cotton in order to prevent the Federals from getting it. SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock,  Hancock's...

W. C. Hancock and three others, who went out the day before, returned. They reported that they went to Marietta, but found no Federals there...

A number of our regiment went to preaching in Fulton. News coming to church that the Federals were not far off, and moving in the direction ...

The Federal scout, said to be about one hundred and ten, turned, recrossed Tombigbee, and went back through Marietta. Morton returned to cam...

I can now say I have been a soldier one year, for on the 28th of June, 1861, about eleven o'clock A. M., our company (Allison's) was...

A large scout went out with three days' rations. We heard news that pleased us well. Colonel Bradfute said our division was ordered to M...

Moving only about two miles, we stopped for the night on the road leading from Jacinto to Marietta. Had quite a hard rain in the evening. ...

Moving two miles again, we halted for a few days at Marietta, a small village in Itawamba County, twenty-one miles from Jacinto. A part of...

McKnight's Company went on a scout toward Bay Spring. They brought no news of interest. SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's Diar...

The battalion fell back almost three miles from Marietta. SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Ten...

After a march of about seventeen miles on the Fulton road, we camped within a few hundred yards of the Tombigbee River, near where Colonel B...

We moved about two hundred yards and encamped on the bank of the Tombigbee. Our wagons were brought out to us, loaded with corn, provisions ...

Passing on through Frankfort and Russellville, Alabama, and notifying the boys to be ready to start to camps next morning. I stopped for the...

We learned after dark that the Federals were at Burnsville. So McKnight's Company was sent out to re-enforce the picket on the Burnsvill...

A scout went out to Burnsville and learned that one hundred and five Federal cavalry had been there the evening before. So all except the pi...