1862 May 30 Staunton, Va.

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

Friday night, May 30, 1862.

Still without news from Richmond, Corinth +c, 

Jackson's army quiet. No prisoners sent off yet 

from that quarter. The ladies are using my 

office for preparing food for the wounded soldiers 

in the tent hospital near the Depot. Have a shed 

for a cooking store. Expect they will injure the 

property, but could not refuse the use of it.    

[transcription by the Valley of the Shadow project]

MSS 38-258