A beautiful day. Yet Gen. Lee is giving furloughs, two to
each company. If the weather should be dry, perhaps Hooker will advance: a thing
desired by our people, being confident of his destruction.
The papers issued extras to-day with news from the Northwest,
based upon the account of a “reliable gentleman,” who has just run the
blockade. He says Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois have resolved to meet
in convention, at Frankfort, Ky., for the purpose of seceding from the
United States,- and setting up a confederacy for themselves, or joining the
Southern Confederacy. I fear the “reliable gentleman” is not to be relied
upon. Yet it would be well for the Western States, a just retribution to New
England, and a very great relief to us.
Gen. Lee is urging the department to have the meat at
Atlanta brought to his army without delay. It is here the army will be
wanted.
I saw pigs to-day, not six weeks old, selling in market at
$10 a piece.
I met Col. Bledsoe to-day, on a visit to the city, who told
me Fenelon never tasted meat, and lived to be ninety years old. I am no
Fenelon, but I shall probably have to adopt his regimen. I would barter,
however, some of his years for a good supply of food. We must have peace
soon, or a famine.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 258-9
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