Nothing further from the West. But we have reliable
information of the burning (accidentally, I suppose) of the enemy's magazine at
Yorktown, destroying all the houses, etc.
I learn to-day that the Secretary of War revoked the order
confiscating blockade goods brought from the enemy's country.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
118
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