Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: July 22, 1861

We hear that General Cox has been beaten on the Kanawha; that our forces have been repulsed at Manassas Gap, and that our troops have been unsuccessful in Missouri. I trust the greater part, if not all, of this is untrue.

We have been expecting orders to march, but they have not come. The men are very anxious to be moving, and when moving, strange to say, always very anxious to stop.

SOURCE: John Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 34