Cloudy, but no rain.
Nothimg new from
Georgia or Petersburg. But a dispatch from Gen. Ewell, received to-day at half
past two P.M., orders the local troops (they did not march yesterday) or other
disposable forces to occupy the Darby Town, New Bridge, and Williamsburg roads,
for the enemy's cavalry were working round to our left. This was dated “27”
when, no doubt, it should be 28th. The Secretary was over at the President's
office, whither I sent the dispatch. I suppose the troops were ordered out,
provided there was a mistake in the date. All dispatches
should have the day written out in full as well as the day of
the month, for the salvation of a city might depend on it.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel
War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
256
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