From intelligence received yesterday evening, it is probable
the Alabama, Harriet Lane, and Florida have met off the West Indies, and turned
upon the U. S. steamer Brooklyn. The account says a large steamer was seen on
fire, and three others were delivering broadsides into her. The United States
press thought the burning steamer was the Florida.
From Charleston or Savannah we shall soon have stirring
news. They may overpower our forces, but our power there will be completely
exhausted before resistance ceases. There will be no more “giving up,” as with
New Orleans, Norfolk, etc. Yet there is a feverish anxiety regarding Vicksburg.
Pemberton permitted one iron-clad gun-boat to pass, and all our boats below are
now at its mercy.
The House of Representatives, at Washington, has passed the “negro
soldier bill.” This will prove a “Pandora's Box,” and the Federals may rue the
day that such a measure was adopted.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 256
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