Reliable information of hard fighting at Vicksburg; but
still, so far as we know, the garrison of the invested city has repulsed every
assault made upon it. The enemy's losses are said to be very heavy. Something
decisive must occur there soon, and I hope something calamitous to the enemy.
The President and the cabinet have been in council nearly
all day. Can they have intelligence from the West, not yet communicated to the
public?
We learn from Newbern, N. C. that gray-haired old men,
women, and children, who refused to take the oath of allegiance, have been
driven from their homes, on foot, despoiled of their property. Among these I
see the names of the Misses Custis, cousins of my wife. Gen. Daniels,
commanding our forces at Kinston, sent out wagons and ambulances to convey them
within our lines. They were on foot.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 333
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