Gen. Kearney has been brought here, having been taken on his
way to Washington from Missouri. He manifested surprise at his captivity, and
says that he is no enemy; being, I believe, Southern born. I learn it is the
purpose of the governor to release him. And this may be a blunder. I fear about
as much from ill-timed Southern magnanimity as from Northern malignity.
The Pawnee “scare” turned out just as I thought it would.
She merely turned her nose up the river, and then put about and steamed away
again. It may do good, however, if it stimulates the authorities to due
preparation against future assaults from that quarter.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 29-30
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