Saturday, June 13, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: June 9, 1864

Part of Crooke's command came as far as Brownsburg (they were four miles from E.'s house), and there they turned around and went back to Staunton, we hear. All this seems very inconsistent; why should they come up the Valley Road this far, and wheel round with nothing before them but McC.'s and J.'s little remnants of regiments? It is quite mysterious, for it seems to have accomplished nothing.

SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 186-7

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