Hot and clear; but
it rained yesterday three-quarters of an hour in the afternoon.
Our loss in the
affair at Petersburg is about 800, the enemy's 3500. We captured 2000 small
arms.
We have nothing yet
from Atlanta, but no doubt there has been another battle. I hope no disaster
has befallen us there. No doubt the wires have been cut by the raiders, and
roads also. It is a critical time in Georgia. But if Virginia triumphs over the
assaults of Grant, all will go well.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel
War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
258-9
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