1862 June 1 New Bern, N.C.

From the diary of Jesse Calvin Spaulding, Co. F, 25th Massachusetts

Sunday
June 1
Got news this forenoon that Banks
had been defeated and driven back
to the Potomac by an overwhelming force
of rebels. Felt pretty savage about it.
Saw by the papers also that Mass. had
sent four thousand more troops to Washing-
ton in one day. Got a letter from home
Had a very pleasant meeting this evening.
Heard also that Corinth was taken.

MSS 11293

[Spaulding does not write in his diary again until June 11]