Sun all day, but a
little hazy; perhaps a battle.
There was quite a
battle yesterday on the south side. The accounts in the morning's paper fall
short of the whole of our success.
The enemy, it is
said to-day, did not regain the works from which they were driven, but are now
cooped up at Bermuda Hundred. Nothing is feared from Butler.
Nothing from Lee,
but troops are constantly going to him.
I saw some 10,000
rusty rifles, brought down yesterday from Lee's battle-field. Many bore marks
of balls, deeply indenting or perforating the barrels. The ordnance officer
says in his report that he has collected many thousands more than were dropped
by our killed and wounded. This does not look like a Federal victory!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the
Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p. 216
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