Saturday night, May 10, 1862.
A number of the wounded in the late battle near Mc-
Dowell, arrived this morning. Also the corpses of eight of
the slain, which lay at the Depot, boxed up, scarcely more
noticed than bales of goods, so accustomed to such scenes
have people become. It was reported this morning that
the Federalists, in their hasty retreat from McDowell, left
a part of their artillery and every thing else they had. To-
night I heard that they had taken the road to Franklin,
Pendleton Co., had burnt their wagons, and, retaining their
artillery only, were flying before Jackson as fast as they
could go. A Federal Colonel (cal named Constable) was brought in
to-day, a prisoner — taken in Highland. The report of a
fight in the Peninsula on Wednesday is contradicted — no
such battle took place. The papers of to-day state that Gen.
Beauregard assailed the enemy, near Corinth, yesterday.
— result not known. The "Richmond Dispatch," of yesterday,
which we got this morning, was in a flurry about
Yankee gun boats coming up James River — cooled down
to-day. I went out to Marquiss's after supper, with
Jimmy Tate + Wright, and brought the bee hive in
on a wheel barrow. Had a hard time — bees very much
stirred up — many of them out side — stinging Jimmy +c.
Delightful spring day. Roads quite dusty.
[transcript by the Valley of the Shadow project]
MSS 38-258
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