Cloudy, but still hot and dry.
From the clouds of dust seen rising between Petersburg and the James River, it is conjectured that Grant's army is in motion.
The Federal Congress has authorized the drafting of 200,000 more men, after 60 days' fruitless attempt to raise volunteers. So it will be September before the draft, and January before the men will be soldiers.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the
Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p. 244
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