We hear to-day that a battle has taken place near Manassas,
and that Lee has taken some 9000 prisoners and many wagons. At 3 p.m. there was
no official intelligence of this event, and it was not generally credited.
Gen. Wise writes from Charleston, that it is understood by
the French and Spanish Consuls there that the city will not be bombarded.
In Eastern North Carolina the people have taken the oath of
allegiance to the United States, to be binding only so long as they are within
the military jurisdiction of the enemy; and they ask to be exempt from the
Confederate States tithe tax, for if they pay it, the enemy will despoil them
of all that remains.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
72-3
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