The enemy have possession of Fredericksburg, and succeeded
in crossing a large portion of their force three miles below, on their pontoon
bridge. Up to 3 P.M. to-day, we have no other intelligence but that “they are
fighting.” We shall know more, probably, before night.
The President has passed through East Tennessee on his way
to Mississippi.
Lieut.-Col. Nat Tyler, publisher of the Enquirer, the
organ of the government, was in my office this morning, denouncing Mr.
Memminger, Secretary of the Treasury. He says Mr. M.'s head is as worthless as a
pin's-head. He also denounced the rules of admission to our Secretary, adopted
by Mr. R. G. H. Kean, Chief of the Bureau, and asked for a copy of them, that
he might denounce them in his paper. It appears that Mr. Jacques is to say who
can see the Secretary; and to do this, he must catechize each applicant as
to the nature of his business. This is deemed insulting by some of the hot
bloods, and will make friend Mr. J.'s position rather a disagreeable and
derogatory one.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 211
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