Tuesday, July 17, 2012

1862 July 18 Staunton, Va.

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


Friday, July 18, 1862.
No train yet from Richmond. On yesterday it 
was said that four divisions of our army were at 
or near Gordonsville. The Federalists had not come this 
side of the Rappahannock. Another batch of prison
ers, taken in Page, or thereabouts, was brought in yes-
terday. A telegraphic dispatch from Richmond, re-
ceived last evening, stated that we had gained a signal 
success at Vicksburg, destroying a number of the ene-
my's gunboats. The report of Hindman's success over 
Curtis, in Arkansas, is still in circulation, but we have 
no authentic account of it. Rain, rain to-day.

[transcription by the Valley of the Shadow project]

MSS 38-258

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