The enemy are shelling our camp at Yorktown. I can hear the
reports of the guns, of a damp evening. We are sending back defiance with our
guns.
The President has not taken any notice of my communication.
Mr. Benjamin is too powerful to be affected by such proofs of such small
matters.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 118
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