Hot and dry. At 3 P.
M. rained about three minutes. We are burning up.
There is no war
news. A rumor in the street says Atlanta has fallen. I don't believe it.
Yesterday Gen. Hood said no important change had occurred, etc.
I saw a soldier
to-day from Gen. Early's army near Martinsburg, and the indications were that
it was on the eve of crossing the Potomac. He left it day before yesterday,
10th inst. He says Kershaw's division was at Culpepper C. H., 50 miles from
Early.
Detachments of
troops are daily passing through the city, northward. All is quiet below on the
James River. Grant's campaign against Richmond is confessedly a failure.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel
War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
263
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