Monday, December 10, 2012

1862 December 11 near Nashville

[from the diary of Captain William F. Hunter, of Co. B., 97th Ohio]




     Dec. 11th, ’62.
At 5 A.M. this
morning ordered to

march at 6 ½;
aborted at that
time, marched over
to the Murfreesboro
pike, & out it a-
bout 8 or 9 miles,
skirmishing with
the enemy near 3
hours; started
back about 5 P.M.
& arrived in Camp
at 8 ½.
Reported that we
fired into our
men taken at Harts-
ville, & returning
from Murfreesville
where they were pa-
roled.

     We were said to be
within three miles of
Lavergne; at which place
it’s reported, the rebels
were “packed up & ready
to start.”

[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]

MSS 10547-b

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