We have not even a rumor to-day from Mississippi. The Examiner
has made a pretty severe attack on Judge Campbell, Assistant Secretary of War,
for the great number of persons he has “allowed” to pass into the enemy's
country. It does not attribute the best motives to the Judge, who was late
coming over to the Confederacy.
The British consul here, it seems, has been meddling with
matters in Mississippi, the President states, and has had his exequatur
revoked.
Gen. D. H. Hill recommends the abandonment of the line of the
Blackwater, for Gen. Martin informs him that the enemy are preparing their
expeditions to cut our railroads in North Carolina. Gen. Hill fears if the
present line be held we are in danger of a great disaster, from the inability
to transport troops from so remote a point, in the event of a sudden emergency.
Gen. Lee refuses to let him have Ranseur's brigade.
There are rumors of picket fighting near Fredericksburg, and
Davis's (the President's nephew) brigade, just from North Carolina, proceeded
through the city to-day in that direction. Shall we have another great
battle on the Rappahannock? I think it a ruse.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 341-2
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