It seems that it was a mistake about the enemy's monitors
approaching the forts in Charleston harbor; but the government has dispatches
to the effect that important movements are going on, not very distant from
Charleston, the precise nature of which is not yet permitted to transpire.
Generals Johnston and Bragg write that Gen. Pillow has
secured ten times as many conscripts, under their orders, as the bureau in
Richmond would have done. Judge Campbell, as Assistant Secretary of War, having
arrested Gen. P.'s operations, Generals J. and B. predict that our army in
Tennessee will begin, immediately, to diminish in numbers.
The rails of the York River Railroad are being removed to-day
toward Danville, in view of securing a connection with the N. C. Central Road.
It seems that the government thinks the enemy will again possess the York River
Railroad, but it cannot be possible a retreat out of Virginia is
meditated.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 287
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