We shall have stirring times here. Our troops are to be
marched through Richmond immediately, for the defense of Yorktown — the same
town surrendered by Lord Cornwallis to Washington. But its fall or its
successful defense now will signify nothing.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 113
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