One of the enemy's iron-clad gun boats has got past our
batteries at Vicksburg. Gen. Pemberton says it was struck “three times.” But it
is through.
The enemy's presses reiterate the assertion that Gen.
Longstreet is in Tennessee with his corps; and that the detachments from Gen.
Lee's army amount to 75,000 men. This is evidently for the purpose to encourage
Hooker's army to cross the Rappahannock. These presses must know that Gen.
Lee's whole army was less than 75,000 men; that Longstreet is still with him,
and that our one small brigade has been sent away to North Carolina. Well let
them come! They will be annihilated. But is it not diabolical in the New York Post,
Times, etc. to urge their own people on to certain destruction? If Hooker
bad 300,000, he could not now come to Richmond!
We have extremely cold weather now; and, probably, the
rivers in Virginia will be frozen over to-night.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 254-5
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