Eliza Woolsey Howland’s Journal.
. . . June 26th. Running away down the Pamunkey again as fast as we can go, escaping from Stonewall Jackson !
All night the wood choppers were at work cutting down the woods at the White House to give the gunboats a chance to command the land beyond, and just now as we passed, the banks were shorn and the pretty little place laid bare. The pickets had been driven in, and Jackson was supposed to be close at hand. Eighty wounded were brought down last night and put on board the Knickerbocker. Twelve more and a few sick came down this morning. The Whilldin follows us, nearly full of sick and wounded.
The rumor to-day is that all communication with the front is stopped, to conceal an advance of our army.
