Friday, June 19, 2015

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 11, 1861


And Wise has had bloody fighting with Rosecrans in Western Virginia, He can beat the enemy at fighting; but they beat him at manoeuvring, with the use of the guides Gen. Winder has sent them from our prisons here.

SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 84

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