Major-Gen. Gilmer, Chief of the Engineer Bureau, writes that
the time has arrived when no more iron should be used by the Navy Department;
that no iron-clads have effected any good, or are likely to effect any; and
that all the iron should be used to repair the roads, else we shall soon be
fatally deficient in the means of transportation. And Col. Northrop,
Commissary-General, says he has been trying to concentrate a reserve supply of
grain in Richmond, for eight months; and such has been the deficiency in means
of transportation, that the effort has failed.
Gov. Milton, of Florida, writes that the fact of
quartermasters and commissaries, and their agents, being of conscript age, and
being speculators all, produces great demoralization. If the rich will not fight
for their property, the poor will not fight for them.
Col. Northrop recommends that each commissary and
quartermaster be allowed a confidential clerk of conscript age. That would
deprive the army of several regiments of men.
The weather is bright again, but cool.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
132
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