We had fighting yesterday in earnest, at Bull Run! Several
brigades were engaged, and the enemy were repulsed with the loss of several
hundred left dead and wounded on the field. That was fighting, and we
shall soon have more of it.
Brig.-Gen. Holmes, my friend and fellow-fugitive, now
stationed near Fredericksburg, has been ordered by Gen. Beauregard to be ready
to march at an hour's notice. And Col. Northrop's chin and nose have become
suddenly sharper. He is to send up fighting rations for three days, and
discerns the approach of sanguinary events.
Mr. Hunter calls every evening, just as the dusky shades of eve
descend, to inquire if we have any news.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 63
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