A large number of new arrivals are announced from the North.
Clerks resigned at Washington, and embryo heroes having military educations,
are presenting themselves daily, and applying for positions here. They
represent the panic in the North as awful, and ours is decidedly the winning
side. These gentry somehow succeed in getting appointments.
Our army does not advance. It is said both Beauregard
and Johnston are anxious to cross the Potomac; but what is said is not
always true. The capabilities of our army to cross the Potomac are not known;
and the policy of doing so if it were practicable, is to be determined by the
responsible authority. Of one thing I am convinced: the North, so far from
desisting from the execution of its settled purpose, even under this
disagreeable reverse, will be stimulated to renewed preparations on a scale of greater
magnitude than ever.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 67-8
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