Thursday, January 1, 2015

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: Monday, July 22, 1861

We can hear nothing from Manassas at all reliable. Men are passing through the neighbourhood giving contradictory reports. They are evidently deserters. They only concur in one statement — that there was a battle yesterday.

SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War, p. 41

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