We have no news to-day, excepting the falling back of Rosecrans
from Murfreesborough, and a raid of Morgan and capture of a train of cars.
Rosecrans means, perhaps, to aid in the occupation of the Mississippi River. It
will be expensive in human life.
Although our conscription is odious, yet we are collecting a
thousand per week. The enemy say they will crush the rebellion in ninety days.
In sixty days half their men will return to their homes, and then we may take
Washington. God knows, but man does not, what will happen.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 279
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