We have a dispatch from Vicksburg at last. The enemy, 25,000
strong, were repulsed three times yesterday, and finally driven back seven
miles, to their gun-boats. It was no battle, for our loss was only 30, and that
of the enemy 400. It will be fought to-day, probably.
It is said an attempt will be made this week on Weldon, as
well as Charleston.
Our Morgan has been in Kentucky again, and captured 1200
men. Glorious Morgan!
The accounts from the United States are rather cheering. The
Herald proposes a convention of all the “loyal States,” that
reconstruction may be tried in that way. A dispatch from Tennessee says, even
the New York Tribune expresses the opinion that our independence must be
recognized. The Philadelphia Press proposes another route to Richmond via
the rivers, and thinks Richmond may be taken yet, and the rebellion
crushed.
The surgeon in charge of the Howard Hospital reports that
the small-pox is greatly on the increase, and terminating fatally in almost
every case. He says men die of it without eruptions on the surface, the disease
striking inward. It is proposed to drive away the strangers (thousands
in number), if they will not leave voluntarily. There are too many people here
for the houses, and the danger of malignant diseases very great.
My vaccination was not a success; very little inflammation
and a small scab being the only evidences. But I have a cough, and much
lassitude.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 226
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