There has been a
great battle in the West, at Chickamauga, in Tennessee, between Bragg and
Rosecranz. We are gloriously victorious! The last telegram from General Bragg
tells of 7,000 prisoners, thirty-five pieces of cannon, and 15,000 small-arms,
taken by our men. The fight is not over, though they have been fighting three
days. Longstreet and his corps of veterans are there to reinforce them. A
battle is daily expected on the Rapidan; and, to use Lincoln's expression, they
are still "pegging away" at Charleston.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 239
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