Clear and cool.
Gen. Grant has
changed his base—disappearing from the front of Lee in the night. He is
supposed to be endeavoring to get his army below the city, and in communication
with Butler on the south side.
A dispatch from Gen.
Lee says Gen. Hampton has defeated Sheridan.
Forrest has gained a
victory in the West.
Lincoln has been
nominated Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, for Vice-President.
Gen. Whiting writes
that supplies from abroad are coming in abundantly at Wilmington, N. C.
If we can only
preserve our communications with the South, I regard the campaign, if not the
war, pretty nearly at an end, and Richmond safe! Grant has failed, after doing
his utmost to take Richmond. He has shattered a great army to no purpose; while
Lee's army is as strong as ever. This is true generalship in Lee. But Grant can
get more men.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 231
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