It has begun to rain again; and yet the clerks are kept at
Chaffin’s Bluff, although the roads are impracticable, and no approach of the
enemy reported.
There is not a word of news from the armies on the Rapidan
or in Georgia.
A collision between the Confederate and State authorities in
Georgia is imminent, on the question of “just compensation” for sugar seized by
the agents of the Commissary-General—whose estimates for the ensuing year
embrace an item of $50,000,000 to be paid for sugar. The Supreme Court of
Georgia has decided that if taken, it must be paid for at a fair valuation, and
not at a price to suit the Commissary-General. It is the belief of many, that
these seizures involve many frauds, to enrich the Commissaries.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
111
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