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...

The Federals were reported to be three miles south of Glendale, and advancing on us. So McCulloch's Battalion and ours mounted and moved...

Captain McKnight, I, and ten others, went out to Burnsville on a scout. We met, about two and a half miles from Burnsville, two of Beauregar...

The non-commissioned officers of our company were elected. The election resulted as follows: John D. McLin, First Sergeant; A. B. McKnight...

McKnight's Company went on a scout up the Tuscumbia road, but brought back no news of interest. SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock...

About noon McCulloch's Battalion moved out toward Burnsville, and just before sundown ours followed. We found McCulloch within two miles...

After returning to Jacinto and cooking three days' rations, our battalion moved down to within one mile of Booneville, where our wagons ...

Between daylight and sunup about twelve hundred Federal cavalry surrounded Booneville, a. small village station on the Mobile and Ohio Railr...

After the rear of the infantry passed we moved on down, covering the retreat on the left flank. Two companies of Colonel Forrest's Regim...

It was reported in camps about sundown that the Federals were tearing up the railroad about five miles west of Burnsville. A squad of us mou...

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 r...

After cooking three days' rations, we struck tents and loaded our wagons. The wagons were sent to Booneville, twelve miles from Jacinto,...