1862 May 12 Staunton, Va.

[from the diary of Joseph Addison Waddell, former owner and editor of the Staunton Spectator, and a civilian employee of the Quartermaster Dept.]

Monday night, May 12, 1862.

No news of special interest to-day, except that Nor-

folk has been evacuated by our troops and occupied by 

the enemy. This event, however, has been anticipated for

a week or two days. Various rumors from Jackson's ar-

my, but not traceable to any reliable source. A letter 

from Kate this evening — great panic in Christians-

burg, caused by an expected inroad of the enemy, by way 

of Giles county. Later intelligence in the Richmond 

papers of to-day, stated that the enemy had been dispersed 

at Giles C.H. by our General Heth. 

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