Monday.—We can hear nothing from Manassas at all reliable. Men are passing through the neighbourhood giving contradictory reports. They are evidently deserters. They only concur in one statement—that there was a battle yesterday.
“They are evidently deserters.”—Diary of a Southern Refugee, Judith White McGuire.
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