Wednesday, June 20, 2012

1862 June 21 Staunton, Va.

[from the diary of Joseph Addison Waddell, civilian employee of the Quartermaster Dept.]

Saturday night, June 21, 1862.
Still no intelligence from any quarter. Several
persons, amongst them Alick, report having heard dis-
tant cannonading this morning. Twenty-five or thirty
"Yankee" prisoners were in the Court house yard this
evening, brought up from Harrisonburg — all but
three wounded, and all but three Dutch. With a
house full before, Frazier is here to-night, on a
lounge in the parlor. For the last ten days the
weather has been very favorable for the crops. 

[transcript by the Valley of the Shadow project]

MSS 38-258

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