We have information that the enemy have invaded and taken
possession of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Accomac and Northampton Counties.
They invaded the two counties with a force of 8000 men, and we had only 800 to
oppose them. Of course there could be no contest against such odds. They
carried my tenant to Drnmmondtown, the county seat, and made him (I suppose)
assist in raising the United States flag over the court-house.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 95
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