The enemy burnt the steamship Nashville on Saturday near
Savannah. She was employed taking provisions to Fort McAlister. I think it was
destroyed by an incendiary shell.
There is a rumor to-day of the burning of railroad bridges
between this and Fredericksburg.
I signed an agreement to-day with Mr. Malsby to publish my
new “Wild Western Scenes.” He is to print 10,000 copies, which are to retail at
$2; on this he pays me 12½ per cent, or 25 cents for every copy sold; $2500 if
the whole are sold. He will not be able to get it out before May.
We moved into the west end of Clay Street to-day, and like
the change. There are no children here except our own. The house is a brick
one, and more comfortable than the frame shell we abandoned.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 266
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