The enemy, knowing our destitution of gunboats, and well
apprised of the paucity of our garrisons, are sending expeditions southward to devastate
the coast. They say New Orleans will be taken before spring, and communication
be opened with Cairo, at the mouth of the Ohio. They will not succeed so soon;
but success is certain ultimately, if Mr. Benjamin, Gen. Winder, and Gen. Huger
do not cease to pass Federal spies out of the country.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 92
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