Col. Northrop, Commissary-General, sends in a paper to-day
saying that only a quarter of a pound of meat per day can be given the
soldiers, except when marching, and then only half a pound. He says no more can
be derived from the trans-Mississippi country, nor from the State of Mississippi,
or Tennessee, and parts of Georgia and Alabama; and if more than the amount he
receives be given the soldiers, the negroes will have to go without any. He
adds, however, that the peasants of Europe rarely have any meat, and in
Hindostan, never.
Col. Bradley T. Johnson, who commanded a brigade at
Gettysburg, writes that on the first day we carried everything before us,
capturing 8000 prisoners and losing but few men; the error was in not following
up the attack with all our forces immediately, and in not having sufficient
ammunition on the field.
The newspapers to-day contain pretty accurate accounts of the
battle.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 385
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