We have no news to-day. But the next act of this terrible
drama is near at hand. The Northern papers have reports of the fall of Vicksburg
and Charleston. Unfounded. They also say 22,000 men have deserted from the Army
of the Potomac. This is probably true.
There is much denunciation of the recent seizure of flour;
but this is counteracted by an appalling intimation in one of the papers that
unless the army be subsisted, it will be withdrawn from the State, and Virginia
must fall into the hands of the enemy. The loss of Virginia might be the loss of
the Confederacy.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 270-1
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