Mr. P. started this morning for Harrisonburg, on business.
We hear this evening startling tidings — that a great battle has been fought at
Gettysburg; 4000 Southerners captured; 12,000 Federals killed — three generals
among them, and three wounded. I do not feel disposed to give half credit to
the news; we always hear such exaggerated accounts at first. Sister's sons
[Mrs. Elizabeth R. Cocke's] are with Longstreet, and her anxiety is intense, as
that division, it is said, lost so heavily.
SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and
Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 168
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