We have warm, fair weather now; but the momentary gloom,
hanging like the pall of death over our affairs, cannot be dispelled without a
decisive victory somewhere, or news of speedy foreign intervention. The letters
which I read at the department this morning, contain no news whatever. I have
suggested to the government to prohibit the exchange of newspapers in the flag
of truce boat; but I doubt if they will act upon it. It is a manifest injury to
us.
The exchange of prisoners is practically resumed; the
Federal boat delivering yesterday 750 of our sick and wounded; and we
returned 600 of their sick and wounded.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p. 4
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