Gen. Hill is moving toward Newbern, N. C, and may attack the
enemy there.
The weather continues dreadful — sleeting; and movements of armies
must perforce be stayed. But the season of slaughter is approaching.
There was an ominous scantiness of supply in the market this
morning, and the prices beyond most persons — mine among the rest.
Col. Lay got turkeys to-day from Raleigh; on Saturday
partridges, by the Express Company. Fortunate man!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 274-5
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