We have rumors of an important cabinet meeting, wherein it
was resolved to advise or command Gen. Johnston to evacuate Yorktown and retire
toward Richmond! Also that Norfolk is to be given up! I don't believe it; Lee's
name is not mentioned.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 121
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