The battalion went
back to the railroad, and after learning that the Federals had gone back and
were encamped about six miles north of the railroad, we turned south, going
through Jacinto, the county seat of Tishamingo, and went into camps two miles from
town, in an old sage field. Jacinto is nine miles from Burnsville.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, p. 167
After cooking three
days' rations, we struck tents and loaded our wagons. The wagons were sent to
Booneville, twelve miles from Jacinto, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. McNairy
moved his men back to Jacinto, and quartered them in the various unoccupied
houses. Allison's Company had splendid quarters in the court-house. Two scouts
were sent out, one to Burnsville, the other to Glendale, six miles west of the
former place, on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Found no Federals. We
remained at Jacinto for some days, scouting and picketing.
SOURCE: Richard R.
Hancock, Hancock's Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry, p. 167
* Possibly Sunday, October 25th. This is an undated paragraph at the beginning of a new chapter, previous to this was the entry for Saturday, October 24th, and the next entry is for Monday, October 26th. So this is either a continuation of the entry for the 24th, a new entry for the 26th, or a remembrance placed at the head of the chapter to keep the reader up to day of the movements of the 7th Illinois Infantry. — Your Blog Editor
