1862 December 13 Staunton, Va.

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

Saturday night, Dec. 13, 1862.

All the news from Fredericksburg is embraced in the annexed slip, cut from the Richmond Dispatch of this morning. Passengers by this evening's train state that firing was heard again this morning, and it is supposed that a general fight was in progress. The "Dispatch" of to-day thought the great battle would take place to-morrow. — No news of interest from any other quarter. A correspondent of the Philadelphia "Inquirer" chuckles over the fact that "rebel" women — delicate and refined — driven from their homes in Fredericksburg, are camping out, in the vicinity. The letter was written a week or more ago.

[transcript by the Valley of the Shadow project]

MSS 38-258