The snow is nearly a foot deep this morning, as it continued
to fall all night, and is falling still. It grows warmer, however.
But we now learn that the Indianola was destroyed in the
Mississippi by the officers, upon the appearance of a simulated gun boat sent
down, without a crew! This was disgraceful, and some one should answer for it.
Col. Godwin writes from King and Queen County, that many of the
people there are deserting to the enemy, leaving their stock, provisions,
grain, etc., and he asks permission to seize their abandoned property for the
use of the government. Mr. Secretary Seddon demands more specific information
before that step be taken. He intimates that they may have withdrawn to avoid
conscription.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 277-8
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