Cloudy, and slight
showers. In the afternoon dark clouds going round.
We have nothing from
below but vague rumors, except that we repulsed the enemy yesterday,
slaughtering the negro troops thrust in front.
From Atlanta, it is
said the enemy have measurably ceased artillery firing, and it is inferred that
their ammunition is low, and perhaps their communications cut.
The President and
Secretary of War were in council all the morning, it is said, on appointments and promotions in
the army.
The President rode
out toward the battle-field at 21 P.M. There have been no guns heard to-day.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel
War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
265
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