Kate & Maggie started this morning for the city, each taking a trunk. Kate had 340 dollars, Maggie 140, nearly five hundred dollars between them to spend. Mrs. G. W. Bailey & Maggie Stapleton called, also Betsey Bailey. Today’s Gazzette says Hooker is again South of the Rappahannock, the 1st Army Corp to which Rufus belongs in the advance.
Peggy’s comments:
U. S. General Hooker had been defeated by Lee at Chancellorsville. Rufus Dawes wrote to Mary Gates:
The reason General Hooker recrossed the river was because he was outgeneraled and defeated, -- a humiliating confession, I own, but I believe true.Accounts of the battle of Chancellorsville are here and here.
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