We have news from the West, which is believed to be
reliable, stating that Bragg captured 6000 prisoners altogether in his late
battles; took 30 cannon, 800 stand of arms, and destroyed 1500 wagons and many
stores. The estimated loss of the enemy in killed and wounded is put down at
12,000. Our loss in killed and wounded not more than half that number.
To-day we have official intelligence confirming the
brilliant achievement at Galveston; and it was Magruder's work. He has men
under him fitted for desperate enterprises; and he has always had a penchant
for desperate work. So we shall expect to hear of more gallant exploits in that
section. He took 600 prisoners.
We have news also from Vicksburg, and the city was not
taken; on the contrary, the enemy had sailed away. I trust this is reliable;
but the Northern papers persist in saying that Vicksburg has fallen, and that
the event took place on the 3d inst.
Six hundred women and children — refugees — arrived at
Petersburg yesterday from the North. They permit them to come now, when famine
and pestilence are likely to be added to the other horrors of war! We are
doomed to suffer this winter!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 235-6
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