This morning the wires refused to work, being cut, no doubt,
in Hanover County.
The presence of the enemy in this vicinity, I think, since
they refuse to fight, is designed to prevent us from sending more troops into
Pennsylvania. I trust the President will think of this matter, if he is well
enough; some of his generals here are incapable of thinking at all.
We have just received intelligence of a great battle at
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. I have not heard the day; but the news was
brought by flag of truce boat to City Point last night. The Yankee papers, I am
told, claim a victory, but acknowledge a loss of five or six generals, among
them Meade, commander-in-chief (vice Hooker), mortally wounded. But we still
held the town, and "actions speak louder than words."
More troops are marching up into Hanover County.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 369-70
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