There is a rumor that Major-Gen. Gustavus W. Smith has
tendered his resignation.
Some idea may be formed of the scarcity of food in this city
from the fact that, while my youngest daughter was in the kitchen to-day, a young
rat came out of its hole and seemed to beg for something to eat; she held out
some bread, which it ate from her hand, and seemed grateful. Several others
soon appeared, and were as tame as kittens. Perhaps we shall have to eat them!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 257
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