We had a startling rumor yesterday that New Orleans had been
taken by the enemy, without firing a gun. I hastened to the Secretary and asked
him if it could be true. He had not heard of it, and turned pale. But a moment
after, recollecting the day on which it was said the city had fallen, he seized
a New Orleans paper of a subsequent date, and said the news could not be true,
since the paper made no mention of it.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 108
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