Clear and cool.
All quiet round the
city; but Petersburg was assaulted yesterday and successfully defended.
The battalion of
clerks still remains at Bottom's Bridge, on the Chickahominy. The pickets hold
familiar conversation every day with the pickets of the enemy, the stream being
narrow, and crossed by a log. For tobacco and the city papers our boys get
sugar, coffee, etc. This intercourse is wrong. Some of the clerks were compelled to
volunteer to retain their offices, and may desert, giving important information
to the enemy.
I had snap beans
to-day from my garden. I have seen none in market.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel
War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
228-9
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