1862 September 9 Staunton, Va.

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

Tuesday evening, Sept. 9, 1862.

The Harrisonburg stage brought word this afternoon
that Jackson was at Frederick, Md., having captured
2600 Federal soldiers at Poolsville — all lately in the
Valley. The telegraph afterwards repeated the same
report. Next the rumor ran through town, from
the telegraph office, that Kirby Smith had taken
Cincinnati! Passengers by the cars, subsequently
stated, as a report, in addition to former, that Stuart's
cavalry was at Baltimore, and that 6000 Mary-
landers had joined Jackson. There is no reason
to doubt now that a portion of our forces are in
Maryland — the remainder is probably mere conjecture. —
The reported capture of Cincinnati has possibly risen out of
the dispatches from that place copied from Northern
papers by our papers yesterday, which represented a por-
tion of our forces as within ten or twelve miles of the
city. As usual the Yankees claimed the victory in the
recent fights near Manassas as long as they could. Gen.
Pope sent a dispatch to Washington stating that he had
defeated us on Thursday, the 28^th, and Friday the 29^th —
 and then follows, in the newspaper, his respectful re-
quest that Gen. Lee will permit him to take off his
 wounded.

[transcript by the Valley of the Shadow project]

MSS 38-258