No news, except that the bombardment at Charleston is
getting hotter — but the casualties are few.
The chief ordnance officer of Gen. Lee's army writes that
the ammunition from Richmond has always to be tested before they can venture to
use it. The shells for the Parrott guns are often too large — and of course
would be useless in the hour of battle!
The Examiner to-day has an attack on the President
for removing A. C. Myers, the Quartermaster-General.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
17
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