Raining fast all
day.
There was a rumor to-day that the enemy were approaching again, but the Secretary knew nothing of it.
Major Griswold is at variance with Gen. Winder, who has relieved him as Provost Marshal, and ordered him to Americus, Ga., to be second in command of the prisons, and assigned Major Carrington to duty as Provost Marshal here. Major Griswold makes a pathetic appeal to the President to be allowed to stay here in his old office.
The following, from the Dispatch, differs from the Examiner's account of the disposal of Col. Dahlgren's body:
“Col. Dahlgren's Body.—On Sunday afternoon last, the body of Col. Ulric
Dahlgren, one of the leaders of the late Yankee raid on this city, and on whose
body the paper revealing their designs, if successful, were found, was brought
to this city on the York River Railroad train, and remained in the car
(baggage) in which it was till yesterday afternoon, when it was transferred to
some retired burial place. The object in bringing Dahlgren's body here was for identification,
and was visited, among others, by Captain Dement and Mr. Mountcastle, of this
city, who were recently captured and taken around by the raiders. These
gentlemen readily recognized it as that of the leader of the band sent to
assassinate the President and burn the city. The appearance of the corpse
yesterday was decidedly more genteel than could be expected, considering the
length of time he has been dead. He was laid in a plain white pine coffin, with
flat top, and was dressed in a clean, coarse white cotton shirt, dark blue
pants, and enveloped in a dark military blanket. In stature he was about five
feet ten inches high, with a long, cadaverous face, light hair, slight beard,
closely shaven, and had a small goatee, very light in color. In age we suppose
he was about thirty years, and the expression of his countenance indicated that
of pain.”
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p. 169
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