Raining still! Lee's and Meade's armies are manoeuvring and
facing each other still; but probably there will be no battle until the weather
becomes fair, and the gushing waters in the vales of Culpepper subside.
From Charleston we learn that a furious bombardment is going
on, the enemy not having yet abandoned the purpose of reducing the forts and
capturing the city. Mr. Miles calls loudly for reinforcements and heavy cannon,
and says the enemy was reinforced a few days since.
An indignant letter was received from Gov. Vance to-day, in
response to the refusal of the government and Gen. Lee to permit him to send
with the army a newspaper correspondent to see that justice was done the North
Carolina troops. He withdraws the application, and appeals to history for the
justice which (he says) will never be done North Carolina troops in Virginia by
their associates. He asserts also that Gen. Lee refused furloughs to the
wounded North Carolinians at the battle of Chancellorville (onehalf the dead
and wounded being from North Carolina), for fear they would not return to their
colors when fit for duty!
Hon. Wm, L. Yancey is dead — of disease of the kidney. The Examiner,
to-day, in praising him, made a bitter assault on the President, saying he
was unfortunately and hastily inflicted on the Confederacy at
Montgomery, and when fixed in position, banished from his presence the heart
and brain of the South — denying all participation in the affairs of government
to the great men who were the authors of secession, etc.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 390-1
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