1862 July 15 Staunton, Va.

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

Tuesday morning, July 15, 1862.

Upon going into the street yesterday evening, I observed a 
crowd near the West gate of the Court house, on Augusta St., sur-
rounding a party of blue-coated Federal soldiers, who were sit-
ting on the curb stones. The Yankees were captured at 
Luray by our cavalry. There were six from Ohio, six from 
New York, one from Vermont and one from Massachu-
setts. They mentioned a report, that which we had heard before, 
that their General Hind Curtis had been routed in Ar-
kansas by the Confederates under Gen. Hindman. — 
No Yankees were at Gordonsville at last advices. Jack-
son was coming up the Central Railroad. No mail train 
from Richmond yesterday. Kate, Kitty + Mary Stuart re-
turned from Waynesboro', last evening.

[transcript by Valley of the Shadow project]

MSS 38-258