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Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, May 27, 1862 (“McDowell left last night for Washington, where they appear to be paralyzed with fear at the audacity of the enemy falling on Banks with a superior force.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_23.html

Brigadier-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, May 17, 1862 (“General McClellan is acting with much prudence and caution.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/brigadier-general-john-sedgwick-to-his_6.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, May 27, 1862 (“News today that General Halleck has taken Corinth and twenty thousand prisoners! Is it true? I hope so.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_21.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: May 27, 1862 (“I don’t know the number of patients, somewhere in thousands, all packed in tents as closely as they can lie, and with not one-tenth the care a sick horse would get at home.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills-may_9.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, May 27, 1862 (“This morning we can hear the beating of drums in the rebel camp. There is not a wide space between the two hostile armies.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_36.html

Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: May 27, 1862 (I guess Robert Shaw got the action he was craving.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/diary-of-josephine-shaw-lowell-may-27.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 27, 1862 (“More troops came in last night, and were marched to the camp at once, so that the Yankees will know nothing of it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-27.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: May 27, 1862 (“General Jackson’s career going on gloriously.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-may-21-1862.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: May 27, 1862 (“Frank Preston [the second son of the family] had been ‘severely wounded’ [at Wincheser].”

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston-may-27.html

Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: May 27, 1862 (“The firing has now ceased, and the Yankees are constantly straggling in, claiming a great victory; but we have learned to believe nothing they say”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-mary-brockenbrough-newton-may_10.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: May 27, 1862 (Morgan and family are preparing to flee New Orleans.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-sarah-morgan-may-27-1862.html