[from the diary of Wesley Hammond]

Today, remarkably pretty.

Received the news that Gen.

Johnson gained a victory

over the Northern forces

in Loudoun Co. took 1700

prisoners, of the enemy.

England acknowledged

the Independence of the

Southern republic – Also

some prospect for peace.

Nothing took place in camp

of interest.

Confederate soldier in the Dixie Greys, Co. E of the 42nd Virginia

There was a Confederate victory on August 26 at Kessler’s Cross Lanes in Nicholas County West Virginia. General John Floyd, not Johnson, was the Confederate commander.

England did not acknowledge the independence of the Confederacy on this or any other date (though on another diplomatic front on August 26 King Kamehameha IV did proclaim the neutrality of the Hawaiian Islands)

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