Clear and pleasant.
Walked to the department. We have vague and incoherent accounts from excited
couriers of fighting, without result, in Dinwiddie County, near the South Side
Railroad.
It is rumored that a
battle will probably occur in that vicinity to-day.
I have leave of
absence, to improve my health; and propose accompanying my daughter Anne, next
week, to Mr. Hobson's mansion in Goochland County. The Hobsons are opulent, and
she will have an excellent asylum there, if the vicissitudes of the war do not
spoil her calculations. I shall look for angling streams: and if successful,
hope for both sport and better health.
The books at the
conscript office show a frightful list of deserters or absentees without
leave-60,000—all Virginians. Speculation !
Jno. M. Daniel, editor
of the Examiner, is dead.
The following
dispatch from Gen. Lee is just (10 A.M.) received:
HEADQUARTERS, April 1st, 1865.
HIS
EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT DAVIS.
Gen.
Beauregard has been ordered to make arrangements to defend the railroad in
North Carolina against Stoneman. Generals Echols and Martin are directed to co-operate,
and obey his orders.
R. E. LEE.
A rumor (perhaps a
1st of April rumor) is current that a treaty has been signed between the
Confederate States Government and Maximilian.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 464
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