I. D. Affleck Letter to Parents

[June 30, 1862]

Monday morning-

I did not write any yesterday as I intended, but will finish it this morning before going on guard—We received glorious news yesterday evening from Richmon—We heard that the enemy were retreating and destroying and burning all of their cannon and commissary stores, they are cut off from their gun boats and all communication with Washington, they have lost three Brig.—Generals and over a hundred field officers [as] prisoners, besides thirteen hundred privates—I saw an extract from the New York Herald [that the British] were going to interfere and France at least would recognize our independenc—I allso saw that a British frigate had landed at Charleston in side of the blocading fleet—A great deal of other news came but I suppose that you will get it before you get this . . . .

[I. D. Affleck]

Affleck, Isaac D., "With Terry's Texas Rangers: The Letters of Dunbar Affleck," ed. by Robert W. Williams and Ralph A. Wooster, Civil War History, Vol. 9, Sept. 1963, pp. 299-319.