There was a rumor yesterday that the enemy were marching on
Weldon; but we have no confirmation of it to-day.
Loring, after all, did not send his cavalry into
Pennsylvania, I presume, since nothing has been heard of it.
The Charleston Mercury has some strictures on the
President for not having Breckinridge in Kentucky, and Price in Missouri, this
fall. They would doubtless have done good service to the cause. The President
is much absorbed in the matter of appointments.
Gen. Wise was again ordered down the Peninsula last
Saturday; and again ordered back when he got under way. They will not let him
fight.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 177
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