1862 August 15 Staunton, Va.

Friday, August 15.

We had no coffee for supper last night. The little we have 

on hand we keep for breakfast, using 1/3 coffee + 2/3 rye. — 

The impending battle near Gordonsville is awaited with great 

solicitude. The result is of immense importance to us. The 

Federal deserters who arrived here on Sunday were paroled and 

provided with passports to go West. They (or most of them) re-

turned yesterday, having been sent back to the Provost Mar-

shall at the Warm Springs.

[transcript by the Valley of the Shadow project]

MSS 38-258