The enemy have postponed drafting, that compulsory mode of
getting men being unpopular, until after the October elections. I hope
Lee will make the most of his time, and annihilate their drilled and seasoned
troops. He can put more fighting men in Virginia than the enemy, during
the next two months. “Now's the day, and now's the hour!”
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 148
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