Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: June 8, 1862

The New York Herald reports a bloody fight on the 31st of May and 1st of June. They acknowledge from 3,000 to 4,000 killed and wounded — give us credit for the victory on the first day, but say that they recovered on the second day what they lost on the first. I have no doubt, from their own account, that they were badly whipped; but how long shall this bloody work continue? Thousands and thousands of our men are slain, and we seem to be no nearer the end than at first.

SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War, p. 140-1