A thunder-storm is sharply rattling over us. Hope is still
deferred. The sound of cannon hushed at about noon. Rumor says, Milroy has been
driven back, and Jackson is pushing beyond Strasburg. It adds, that he orders
hospitals to be prepared for his wounded here. No news from our front. A
foolish doctor from the hospital tried to fire up the engine to go to
Charlestown, but was prevented by the citizens, with whom he has had some
altercation. A guard is now placed over the hospital again. We are not “out of
the woods,” and had better not halloo yet, though we need not be scared by
owls! Would that Banks or day after to-morrow were here!
SOURCE: Elizabeth Amelia Dwight, Editor, Life and
Letters of Wilder Dwight: Lieut.-Col. Second Mass. Inf. Vols., p. 265
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