Gen. Longstreet lost, it is said, two 32-pounder guns
yesterday, with which he was firing on the enemy's gunboats. A force was landed
and captured the battery.
Gen. Lee writes that his men have each, daily, but a quarter
pound of meat and 16 ounces of flour. They have, besides, 1 pound of rice to
every ten men, two or three times a week. He says this may keep them alive; but
that at this season they should have more generous food. The scurvy and the
typhoid fever are appearing among them. Longstreet and Hill, however, it is
hoped will succeed in bringing off supplies of provision, etc. — such being the
object of their demonstrations.
Gen. Wise has fallen back, being ordered by Gen. Elzey not
to attempt the capture of Fort Magruder — a feat he could have accomplished.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 296-7
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