Showery morning.
I perceive no
change, except, perhaps, a diminution of troops, which seems to confirm the
reports of recent battles, and the probable success of Lee and Johnston. But all
is doubt and uncertainty.
The military
authorities are still reticent regarding the fate of those remaining in
Richmond. We are at their mercy, and prepared for our fate. I except some of
our ladies, who are hysterical, and want to set out on foot "for the
Confederacy."
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 472
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