Hot and dry.
There are rumors of
battles near Winchester and in Georgia.
Mr. Benjamin writes
the Secretary of War for a passport for who is going to New York, “for our
service.” In the assault on the fortifications near Petersburg last week, it is
said Hancock's (enemy's) corps lost half its men.
Watermelons have
sold at $20 each; corn, $10 per dozen ears; and everything else in the markets
in proportion.
My yellow tomatoes
are just maturing. The dry weather has ruined nearly everything else in the
garden.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel
War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
261-2
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