The successes in the West have been confirmed. Morgan
captured 2000 and Van Dorn 1500 prisoners at Holly Springs. They likewise
destroyed a large amount of stores.
We have intelligence of a great armament, under Gen.
Sherman, sailing from Memphis against Vicksburg. At the last accounts the
President was at Vicksburg; and he may be witness of this decisive struggle for
the possession of the Mississippi River, the result of which involves immense
interests. We await with much anxiety the issue of the naval operations during
the ensuing month. We are content with the land achievements of this year; and
if we should be equally successful in resisting the enemy's fleets, we shall
deem ourselves fortunate indeed.
The agents of the Commissary and Quartermaster-General make
grievous complaints against Lieut.-Gen. Pemberton, at Grenada, Mississippi;
they say he interferes with their arrangements to procure supplies — for
cotton; and it is intimated that he has some little arrangements of his own of that
nature. This illicit trade is very demoralizing in its nature.
Oh, that peace would return! But with Independence!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 225
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