[from the diary of Matthella Page Harrison as transcribed at a later date]
We have heard glorious news today. Our drooping hopes are soaring high. Johnston, after a masterful retreat to Williamsburg, Drawing McClellan after him, whipped the latter back to his gun boats. Corinth was the scene of another grand victory. General Lovel[?] entered New Orleans by a back track and took Picayune Butler and 15,000 of his troops prisoner, and last but not the least to our little Commonwealth, Banks is in full retreat to Winchester.
MSS 9759
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