1862 June 14 Lynchburg, Va.

[From the diary of William M. Blackford, bank officer and former U.S. diplomat with five sons in the Confederate Army.]
 
Saturday 14  The hottest day of the season
variously occupied-- Town filled
with soldiers, many of them found
liquour enough to get drunk--The
telegraph brings news that Milroy
has fallen back as far as New Market
-Four hundred prisoners arrived last

night making 2100 now here
I wish[?] they were away--no mails
from Richd since Tuesday.  Spent the
evening at Charles' with Captian Tebbs
when accounts of Jacksons movements
and of his own personal adventures were
very interesting.

MSS 4763