[From the diary of Joseph Addison Waddell, civilian employee in the Quartermaster Dept.]
Thursday night, May 15, 1862.
A report from Richmond this evening, by tele-
graph, that two of the Federal gunboats had been sunk
in James River, and the rest driven off. The enemy are
said to be at Lewisburg, and the people in the surrounding
country are gathering to repel them from the terminus
of the Central Railroad, supposing that to be their desti-
nation. Gen. Jackson at McDowell last night, and John
son's Brigade at Shaw's Fork. All my spare minutes at
home in day-light are occupied in making a bee hive. —
MSS 38-258
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