Miss Harriet H. Fort, of Baltimore, has arrived via Accomac
and Northampton Counties, with a complete drawing of all the defenses of
Baltimore.
The Medical Purveyor's Guards have petitioned the Secretary
for higher pay. They get now $1500 per annum, and say the city watchmen get
$2300.
Gens. Banks and Taylor in the West are corresponding and
wrangling about the exchange of prisoners — and the cartel is to be abrogated,
probably.
The Governor of Mississippi (Clark) telegraphs the President
that the Legislature (in session) is indignant at the military authorities for
impressing slaves. The President telegraphs back that the order was to prevent
them falling into the lines of the enemy, and none others were to be disturbed.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
100
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