Slight showers, and warm.
Gen. J. H. Morgan
was betrayed by a woman, a Mrs. Williamson, who was entertaining him.
Custis made an
estimate of the white male population in seven States this side of the
Mississippi, leaving out Tennessee, between the ages of fifteen and fifty, for
Gen. Kemper, for Gen. Lee, which is 800,000, subject to deduction of those
between fifteen and seventeen, disabled, 250,000, leaving 550,000—enough for
defense for several years yet, if the Bureau of Conscription were abolished and
a better system adopted.
It is said the draft
is postponed or abandoned in the United States. I hope so.
Two 32-pounder guns
passed down the river to-day on this side. We shall probably hear from them
soon, and then, perhaps—lose them.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 280
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