We have no news to-day from the West. If the great battle
has been fought at Vicksburg, we ought to know it to-day or to-morrow; and if
the enemy be beaten, it should be decisive of the war. It would be worse than
madness to continue the contest for the Union.
Several fine brass batteries were brought down from
Fredericksburg last night, an indication that the campaign is over for the
winter in that direction.
If we should have disasters in the West, and on the Southern
seaboard, the next session of Congress, to begin a fortnight hence, will be a stormy
one.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 225-6
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