Friday, August 10, 2012

1862 August 11, Lynchburg, Va.


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

Monday 11.  Hot as oven--further details
of the battle which does not seem
to have been a general one--our
loss 300 or 400 killed & wounded
about as many of the enemy
taken prisoners, including two Gen-
erals --   Prince & Williams
Met Rev & Mrs  Latané of Staunton
who told me he had come with Miss
Booker--daughter of the late R. S. Brooks
and grand daughter of my old and va
lued friend Judge Brook to look for
her brother who had been sent to a
hospital here--that after much trou
-ble she had found him in Langhornes
factory that he would take it as a
favor if I would receive Miss Brooks
that she might be near her brother.
This, of course, I readily assented to but
said nothing further of my intention
after dinner I went to the hospital
and found young Brooks and had
him removed to my house--I then
went to the Washington & conveyed
Miss B up.  She said she would go
to the hospital.  After getting [?]
I asked her if she was ready to see her
Brother.  She started and was surpri
-zed that I led her up stairs--of course
she was delighted--I had not been
for some days going on the 2d floor
of the hospital and had heard no-
thing of Brooks being there--wrote
to Mary--no letter from her by the
mail from Richd.

MSS 4763

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