Lee and Meade have their armies daily drawn up in battle
array, and an engagement may be expected.
It is said the enemy is evacuating East Tennessee;
concentrating, I suspect, for battle with Bragg.
It is now said that Brigadier and Col. Lee, A. D. C. to the
President, etc. etc., is going to call out the civil officers of the government
who volunteered to fight in defense of the city, and encamp them in the
country. This will make trouble.
A Mr. Mendenhall, New Garden, N. C, Quaker, complains of the
treatment two of his young Friends are receiving at Kinston from the troops.
They won't fight, because they believe it wrong, and they won't pay the tax
(war) of $500, because they cannot do it conscientiously. And Gov. Vance says
the treatment referred to will not be tolerated.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
46
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