We have news of a fight on the Rappahannock yesterday, above
Fredericksburg, the enemy having crossed again. They were driven back.
There are also reports from Vicksburg, which still holds
out. Accounts say that Grant has lost 40,000 men so far. Where Johnston is, we
have no knowledge; but in one of his recent letters he intimated that the fall of
Vicksburg was a matter of time.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 344
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