Yesterday evening the battalion of clerks was to leave for
Western Virginia to meet the raiders. After keeping them in waiting till
midnight, the order was countermanded. It is said now that Gen. Lee has sent
three brigades after Averill and his 3000 men, and hopes are entertained that
the enemy may be captured.
It is bright and cold to-day.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
116-7
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