Friday, 20th.—Being ordered to move his battalion to Cumberland Ford, Colonel McNairy set out from Camp Cummings, near Knoxville, about six P. M., with Harris’s (A), Payne’s (D), and Allison’s (E) companies, and after a march of thirteen miles he camped for the night. The other two companies (B and C) were ordered to follow in about three days.¹
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¹ As I was yet quite feeble, having just recovered from an attack of measles, brother Ben and I put up only three miles from town.
