No army news. No papers. No merriment this Christmas.
Occasionally an exempt, who has speculated, may be seen drunk; but a
somber heaviness is in the countenances of men, as well as in the sky above.
Congress has adjourned over to Monday.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
120
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