Cloudy and warm;
light shower at 3. P.M.
Gen. Lee's dispatch,
giving an account of a victory last Sunday, near Winchester, has diffused hope
and satisfaction anew in the city.
The following
dispatch was received from Gen. Bragg:
ATLANTA, July 26th, 1864.
Leave
to-morrow to confer with Major-Gen. Maury at Montgomery, and urge matters
beyond. Lieut.-Gen. Lee arrived. Tone of the army fine, and strength increasing
daily, etc. All is quiet to-day.
B. BRAGG, General.
COL.
J. B. SALE, Mil. Sec.
Nevertheless, the
clerks are ordered out this afternoon at five, to march to Chaffin's Farm.
I met Mr. Benjamin
as I was passing to the office of the Secretary of War with Gen. Bragg's
dispatch, and showed it him. After reading it carefully, he said, “That's very
good.”
Gen. Lee may be on
the eve of attacking Grant, or Grant him, or we may be reinforcing Early, as
the solution of the marching of the clerks. No doubt one of Grant's corps is on
this side of the river, but I think that is to guard the river against our
batteries.
During my
conversation with Mr. Benjamin, I hoped that in two months the Federal armies
would be called to Washington for the defense of the capital. He did not
express any such belief. He was at the department procuring passports from
Judge Campbell, for a young Jew to pass the lines into the United States.
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