Cold and clear. Gen. Longstreet has preferred charges
against Major-Gen. McLaws and another general of his command, and also asks to
be relieved, unless he has an independent command, as Gen. Johnston's
headquarters are too far off, etc. The Secretary is willing to relieve him, but
the President intimates that a successor ought to be designated first.
Beef was held at $2.50 per pound in market to-day—and I got
none; but I bought 25 pounds of rice at 40 cts., which, with the meal and
potatoes, will keep us alive a month at least. The rich rogues and rascals,
however, in the city, are living sumptuously, and spending Confederate States
notes as if they supposed they would soon be valueless.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
126
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