Snowing. It is estimated that we lost 250 men, killed,
wounded, and taken, in the fight on the Rappahannock; the enemy's loss is not
known, but certainly was heavy, since they were defeated, and fled back, hotly
pursued.
Confederate money still depreciates, in spite of the funding
act. Some of the brokers are demanding ten dollars Confederate notes for one in
gold! That is bad, and it may be worse.
The enemy are advancing from Corinth, and there are not
sufficient troops to resist them. Gen. Johnston says if men are taken from
Bragg, his army may be destroyed; and none can be ordered from Mobile, where
there are only 2500 for land defense.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 277
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