We have rumors of fighting this morning on the Rappahannock;
perhaps the enemy is making another advance upon Richmond.
There was a grand funeral to-day, — Gen. D. R. Jones's; he
died of heart disease.
Gen. Bragg dispatches that Brig.-Gen. Wheeler, with his
cavalry, got in the rear of Rosecrans a few days ago, and burned a railroad bridge.
He then penetrated to the Cumberland River, and destroyed three large
transports and bonded a fourth, which took off his paroled prisoners. After
this he captured and destroyed a gun-boat and its armament sent in quest
of him.
We have taken Springfield, Missouri.
Rosecrans sends our officers, taken at Murfreesborough, to
Alton, Ill., to retaliate on us for the doom pronounced in our President's
proclamation, and one of his generals has given notice that if we burn a railroad
bridge (in our own country) all private property within a mile of it shall be
destroyed. The black flag next. We have no news from North Carolina.
Mr. Caperton was elected C. S. Senator by the Virginia
Legisture on Saturday, in place of Mr. Preston, deceased.
An intercepted letter from a Mr. Sloane, Charlotte, N. C.,
to A. T. Stewart & Co., New York, was laid before the Secretary of War
yesterday. He urged the New York merchant, who has contributed funds for our
subjugation, to send merchandise to the South, now destitute, and he would act
as salesman. The Secretary indorsed “conscript him,” and yet the Assistant
Secretary has given instructions to Col. Godwin, in the border counties, to
wink at the smugglers. This is consistency! And the Assistant Secretary writes “by
order of the Secretary of War!”
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 241-2
