After returning to
Jacinto and cooking three days' rations, our battalion moved down to within one
mile of Booneville, where our wagons had been stationed since we took quarters
in the vacant houses of Jacinto, May 5th. We heard that the Federals were
marching down east of Jacinto, in the direction of Booneville, but we thought
that that must be a false report. Corinth was evacuated that night.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate
Cavalry, p. 172
