Gen. Lee thinks Charleston will be assailed, and suggests
that all the troops in North Carolina be concentrated near Wilmington, and he
will undertake the defense of the rest of the State. Nevertheless, if the
government deems it more important to have his troops sent to North Carolina,
than to retain them for the defense of Richmond, he must acquiesce. But he
thinks Hooker will attempt the passage of the Rappahannock, at an early day, if
the weather will admit of it. In regard to the last attempt of Burnside to
cross his army (when he stuck in the mud), Gen. Lee says it was fortunate for
the Federals that they failed to get over. No doubt he was prepared for their
reception.
Congress is doing nothing but voting money for themselves.
The President (some of the members say) is their master, and they await his
nod. These are his enemies.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 255
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