Maggie is better. Lizzie came home this morning. She received the first letter from Washington today, dated July 5th. William thinks Congress will have a "short working session". He writes that the city is full of soldiers, streets, hotels, halls of Congress. And every hill top on the Virginia side of the Potomac is white with tents. He finds every man striving for himself and true patriotism at a discount.
Kate spent the afternoon with Maggie. Mrs. John Newton is there spending the day. Lizzie and I went to the Circle at Mrs. Joel Deming's, first calling on Mrs. Blackinton and Mrs. Charles Cone. Mrs. Newton and the Burgess' called down in the evening to hear the news. There has been severe fighting in Missouri between Col Sigel's regiment and a greatly superior rebel force. Loss of rebels 200, ours eight killed, 45 wounded & missing, eighty five horses captured. Rebels retracting. Also an engagement is reported between the scouts of Gen. McClellan and the enemy's pickets near Laurel Hill, Va., in which the northerners displayed admirable courage, driving the enemy into their own rifle pits "Into the pits they digged for us they have fallen themselves". The Gazette says the funeral of young Vornholt was very numerously attended. He was buried with military honors by the Storer Rifles and a detachment of the Eggleston Guards.
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