The news of the successful defense of Vicksburg is confirmed
by an official dispatch, to the effect that the enemy had departed up the
Mississippi River. By the late Northern papers, we find they confess to a loss of
4000 men in the several attacks upon the town! Our estimate of their loss did
not exceed that many hundred. They lost two generals, Morgan and another. We
did not lose a hundred men, according to our accounts. The Herald (N.
Y.) calls it “another Fredericksburg affair.”
The estimate of the enemy's loss, at Murfreesborough, from
12,000 to 20,000, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, and ours at from four to
nine thousand. Bragg says he will fight again near the same place, and his men
are in high spirits.
Our men fight to kill now, since the emancipation
doom has been pronounced. But we have had a hard rain and nightly frosts, which
will put an end to campaigning during the remainder of the winter. The fighting
will be on the water, or near it.
The legislature is in session, and resolutions inimical to
the passport system have already been introduced. But where are State Rights
now?
Congress meets to-morrow.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 236-7
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