Still raining! The great fear is that the crops will be
ruined, and famine, which we have long been verging upon, will be complete. Is
Providence frowning upon us for our sins, or upon our cause?
Another battle between Lee and Meade is looked for on the Upper
Rappahannock.
Gov. Harris, in response to the President's call for 6000
men, says Western and Middle Tennessee are in the hands of the enemy, and that
about half the people in East Tennessee sympathize with the North!
Some two or three hundred of Morgan's men have reached
Lynchburg, and they believe Morgan himself will get off, with many more of his
men.
The New York Herald's correspondent, writing from
Washington on the 24th inst., says the United States ministers in England and
France have informed the government of the intention of those powers to
intervene immediately in our behalf; and that they will send iron-clad fleets
to this country without delay. Whereupon the Herald says Mr. Seward is
in favor of making peace with us, and reconstructing the Union — pardoning us —
but keeping the slaves captured, etc. It is a cock-and-bull story, perhaps,
without foundation.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 390
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