Hillsborough (NC) Recorder
July 24, 1861
Page 3
����������� MANASSAS
JUNCTION, July 19, 10 p. m.�Everything has been
unusually quiet here to-day, contrasting strongly with the stirring events of
yesterday.
����������� A
flag of truce was sent in at an early hour by the enemy, asking permission to
bury their dead.
����������� Gen.
Beauregard promptly granted the permission asked for.
����������� The
enemy had been busily engaged all day at this melancholy business.
����������� It
is thought that they have sustained a loss of at least five hundred killed and
wounded.
����������� The
Confederate loss is less than twenty dead.�
The wounded not exactly known, but it is not thought to be large.
����������� Major
Harrison, of the Eleventh Virginia Regiment, wounded in the battle of
yesterday, died to-day, also George W. Muse, a private in the Washington
Artillery, of New Orleans.
����������� Two
cannon and five hundred stand of arms were taken from
the enemy yesterday.
����������� An
attack is hourly expected here.
����������� Gen.
Patterson has crossed the Potomac at Harper�s
Ferry, for the purpose, doubtless, of making a junction with General McDowell.
����������� Fifty
prisoners, principally Pennsylvanians, arrived here to-day from Washington, en route for Richmond.���������� ����������������������������������������������� --D.�
[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]
