1862 June 9 Lynchburg, Va.

[from the diary of William M. Blackford, former diplomat, and bank officer of Lynchburg, Va., with five sons in the Confederate army]

Monday 9  The telegrams announce
that Jackson, or rather Ewell, had
defeated Fremont & Milroy near
Harrisonburg, and that Jackson
would crush Shields to day at
or near Port Republic..The news
seems authentic--Nothing else
of any particular interest--called
with Mary & Fanny on Miss Clarke
and her father.  W L. Clarke of Win-
chester, my old teacher--Recd a
dispatch from Charles Minor

from Gordonsville, enquiring where
his wife was.  I answered immediately
I think it likely he will be here to
night or tomorrow.

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