Averill (Federal) made a raid a day or two since to Salem
(Roanoke County, Va.), cutting the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, destroying
the depot, bridges, court-house, etc.
Gen. J. E Johnston has been ordered to take command of
Bragg's army.
I saw a communication from Lieut.-Col. Ruffin (Commissary
Bureau), suggesting the trade of cotton to the enemy in New Orleans for
supplies, meat, etc., a Mr. Pollard, of St. Louis, having proposed to barter
meat for cotton, which Col. Ruffin seems to discourage.
Gen. Halleck has proposed a plan of exchange of prisoners,
so far as those we hold go. We have 15,000; they, 40,000.
A letter from Mr. Underwood, of Rome, Ga., says our people
fly from our own cavalry, as they devastate the country as much as the enemy.
We have a cold rain to-day. The bill prohibiting the
employment of substitutes has passed both Houses of Congress. When the
Conscription act is enlarged, all substitutes now in the army will have to
serve for themselves, and their employers will also be liable.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
116
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