1862 June 3 Staunton, Va.

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

Thursday night, June 3, 1862.

The Richmond Dispatch of yesterday, received 

this evening via Lynchburg, gives some account 

of the fighting on Saturday and Sunday. The On Sun-

day the affair was not so protracted and important 

as on Saturday; it would seem, however, that the 

reports received here yesterday were exaggerated. 

Jackson has fallen back this side of Winchester 

 No definite intelligence from his army. Great prep-

arations at the North in consequence of the dis-

aster to Banks' army. A beautiful white mule 

belonging to Banks, captured at Winchester, has been 

brought to town. It is really a beautiful animal. 

There is a match to it, somewhere on the road.   

[transcription by the  Valley of the Shadow Project]

MSS 38-258