Bright and pleasant.
We have rumors of
heavy fighting yesterday near Staunton, but no authentic accounts.
A dispatch from Gen.
R. Taylor says Gen. Forrest had gained a victory at Athens, Ala., capturing
some 1500 prisoners, 500 horses, etc. etc.
We still hear the
thunder of artillery down the river-the two armies shelling each other, I
suppose, as yet at a safe distance. A few more days and the curtain will rise
again—Lee and Grant the principal actors in the tragedy!
The President is
making patriotic speeches in Alabama and Georgia.
Mr. Hudson, of
Alabama, proposes to deliver to the government 5,000,000 pounds of bacon for
the same number of pounds cotton, delivered at the same place.
Our cotton agent in
Mississippi is authorized by the government here to sell cotton in exposed
situations to the enemy's agents for specie, and to buy for
Confederate notes.
The funeral expenses
of Gen. Morgan the other day amounted to $1500; the Quartermaster-General
objects to paying it, and sends the bill to the Secretary for instructions.
The following is a
copy of Gen. Lee's indorsement on Lieut.Col. Moseby's report of his operations from
the 1st of March to the 11th of September, 1864:
HEADQUARTERS, ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA,
September 19th, 1864.
Respectfully
forwarded to the Adjutant and Inspector-General for the information of the
department. Attention is invited to the activity and skill of Col. Moseby, and
the intelligence and courage of the officers and men of his command, as
displayed in this report.
With
the loss of little more than 20 men, he has killed, wounded, and captured,
during the period embraced in this report, about 1200 of the enemy, and taken
more than 1600 horses and mules, 230 beef cattle, and 85 wagons and ambulances,
without counting many smaller operations. The services rendered by Col. Moseby
and his command in watching and reporting the enemy's movements have also been
of great value. His operations have been highly creditable to himself and his
command.
R. E. LEE, General.
Official:
JOHN BLAIR HOGE,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 293-4
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