Nothing from the North or West to-day. But Beauregard
telegraphs that the enemy's batteries and monitors opened this morning heavily
on his forts and batteries, but; as yet, there were no casualties.
The Commissary-General to-day, in a communication to the
department, relating to the necessity of impressment to subsist our armies,
says “the armies in Virginia muster 150,000 men.” If this be so, then let Meade
come! It may be possible that instead of exaggerating, a policy may have been
adopted calculated to conceal the actual strength of armies.
Nevertheless, it is understood that one of the cabinet is
offering his estates, lands, and negroes for sale. Will he convert the money
into European funds? If so, he should not let it be known, else it will
engender the terrible idea that our affairs are in a desperate condition. The
operations of the next thirty days may be decisive of our fate. Hundreds of
thousands of Southern men have yet to die before subjugation can be effected;
and quite that number of invaders must fall to accomplish it!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
83
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