Letters and diary entries from the corresponding day in the Civil War posted from the holdings of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.
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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