It is the belief of some that the riot was a premeditated
affair, stimulated from the North, and executed through the instrumentality of emissaries.
Some of the women, and others, have been arrested.
We have news of the capture of another of the enemy's gunboats,
in Berwick Bay, Louisiana, with five guns. It is said to have been done by cavalry.
A dispatch just received from Charleston states that the
enemy's monitors were approaching the forts, seven in number, and that the
attack was commencing. This is joyful news to our people, so confident
are they that Gen. Beauregard will beat them.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 286-7
No comments:
Post a Comment