Beauregard offers battle again on the plains of Manassas;
but it is declined by the enemy, who retire behind their fortifications. Our
banners are advanced to Munson's Hill, in sight of Washington. The Northern
President and his cabinet may see our army, with good glasses, from the roof of
the White House. It is said they sleep in their boots; and that some of them
leave the city every night, for fear of being captured before morning.
Generals Johnston, Wise, and Floyd are sending here, daily,
the Union traitors they discover to be in communication with the enemy. We have
a Yankee member of Congress, Ely, taken at Manassas; he rode out to witness the
sport of killing rebels as terriers kill rats, but was caught in the trap
himself. He says his people were badly whipped; and he hopes they will give up
the job of subjugation as a speculation that won't pay. Most of the prisoners
speak thus while in confinement.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 75-6
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