Last night I visited the courthouse [in Winchester – ed.] where a number of wounded of both armies lay. In the courtyard were two pieces of cannon, twelve-pounders, taken from the enemy. In the vestibule lay thirteen dead bodies of United States soldiers and the courtroom was filled to its capacity with wounded, all of a serious character. A Confederate captain, Yancey Jones, was lying there with both eyes scooped out and the bridge of his nose carried away by a bullet. He was sometimes delirious and roared about forming his company and charging. An Ohio volunteer lay on his back, the brains oozing from a shot in the head, uttering at breathing intervals a sharp stertorous cry. He had been lying thus for thirty-six hours. A few stifled groans were heard occasionally, but as a general thing the men were quiet. There was another storeroom opposite Taylor's Hotel where we saw a number of wounded, all Federalists.

This morning I visited the Union Hotel where I saw two rooms filled with wounded and seven dead. In the room where the dead bodies were, lay a Confederate soldier wounded in the head. He seemed also delirious and was rolling a piece of lint in his hands and rubbing the floor with it. He also pulled the bloody bandages from his head and the soldier nurse told us that he occasionally got up and ran about so violently that he was obliged to bring him out from among the other wounded. In the next room was a fairhaired man whose fixed eyes and stertorous breathing showed him to be in the agonies of death. Some here were lightly wounded in the limbs and one with a broken thigh showed me the wound and begged I would have it attended to. George Washington of Jefferson County was upstairs said to be mortally wounded. At the door I met a lady [asking] for permission to visit him….