Gen. Winder and all his police and Plug Ugly gang have their
friends or agents, whom they continually desire to send to Maryland. And often
there comes a request from Gen. Huger, at Norfolk, for passports to be granted
certain parties to go out under flag of truce. I suppose he can send whom he
pleases.
We have news of a bloody battle in the West, at Belmont.
Gen. Pillow and Bishop Polk defeated the enemy, it is said, killing and
wounding 1000. Our loss, some 500.
Port Royal, on the coast of South Carolina, has been taken
by the enemy's fleet. We had no casemated batteries. Here the Yankees will
intrench themselves, and cannot be dislodged. They will take negroes and
cotton, and menace both Savannah and Charleston.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 91
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