We are not informed of a renewal of the attack on
Charleston. It is said our shot penetrated the turret of the Keokuk, sunk.
In New York they have been exulting over the capture of Charleston,
and gold declined heavily. This report was circulated by some of the government
officials, at Washington, for purposes of speculation.
Col. Lay announced, to-day, that he had authority (oral)
from Gen. Cooper, A. and I. G., to accept Marylanders as substitutes. Soon
after he ordered in two, in place of Louisianian sutlers, whom he accompanied
subsequently — I know not whither. But this verbal authority is in the teeth of
published orders.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 289
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