After much anxiety, more authentic information from the “Valley”
received this morning. We gave them a good fight, but the field was left in the
enemy's hand. Poor, noble Winchester, to what degradation is she brought! Our
dear W. B. C.[1] was shot through the hip; the wound painful, but
not mortal; he was carried to Staunton, and his mother has gone to him. The
rest of our own peculiar “boys” are safe, but many lives were lost. It is
thought that a great crisis is at hand. The Peninsula is the place appointed by
rumour for a great battle. The croakers dread much from their numbers; my trust
is in One who can save by many or by few.
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[1] William Brockenbrough Colston, son of Judith
W. (Brockenbrough)
McGuire’s sister, Sarah Jane Brockenbrough and her husband, Edward Colston.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 103-4
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