No news from the army. We have some 13,000 prisoners here,
hungry; for there is not sufficient meat for them.
Mr. Memminger, Secretary of the Treasury, is said to be
transporting his private fortune (very large) to Europe.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
83
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