Well, the President is a bold man! He has put in Randolph's
place, temporarily at least, Major-Gen. Gustavus W. Smith — who was Street
Commissioner in the City of New York, on the day that Capt. G. W. Randolph was
fighting the New Yorkers at Bethel!
Gen. Wise is out in a card, stating that in response to a requisition
for shoes for his suffering troops, Quartermaster-Gen. A. C. Myers said, “Let
them suffer.”
The enemy attacked Fredericksburg yesterday, and there was
some skirmishing, the result of which we have not heard. It is rumored they are
fighting there to-day. We have but few regiments between here and
Fredericksburg.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 191
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