Bright and cold.
Gen. Lee is in the
city, looking after recruits, details, etc.
Mr. Secretary Seddon
appears to be in very high spirits to-day, and says our affairs are by no means
so desperate as they seem on the surface. I hope the good coming will come
soon.
Gen. Beauregard has
been sent to North Carolina on a tour of inspection.
No news of our wheat
and molasses yet; and we have hardly money enough to live until the next
pay-day. We have no coal yet.
Four o'clock P.M. A
brisk cannonade down the river is distinctly heard. It is not supposed to be a
serious matter, perhaps we are shelling Gen. Butler's observatory, erected
within his lines to overlook ours.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp
Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 282-3
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