[from the diary of Harrison B. Jones, 33rd Virginia Infantry]

Today was cool and

pleasant. there was a

report in camp to day

that there was fight near

Leesburg; about 700 hun

dred killed taken

prisoners & several killed

of the enemy

The only action in Virginia the previous week was a skirmish near Grafton, now W. Va.

As Grafton is about 100 miles from Leesburg, the “report in camp” was probably an unfounded rumor