Hancock's Diary: or, A History of the Second Tennessee Cavalry, with Sketches of the First and Seventh Battalion by Richard R. Hancock Book #863A $50.00 677 pp., reprint of Nashville 1887 edition, new index, hardcover. Twenty years after this diary was written it was revised and supplemented with information gained from the writer’s com­rades and from official documents. It is therefore somewhat impersonal but no less reliable. Its chief value as a travel book lies in the author’s clearly indicated routes, with incidental observations on the country and occasional references to people visited. Hancock’s wartime travels were confined entirely to northern Alabama and Mississippi, Tennessee, and southeastern Kentucky. Much of the time he was following General Forrest and, notably, he was present at the so-called Fort Pillow massacre. In October 1864, he was wounded and thereafter took no part in the war. —From: Travels in the Confederate States   Order now