Bright and beautiful.
Still all quiet
below, and reinforcements (details revoked) are not arriving—1000 per day.
The Northern news
makes some doubt as to the result of the election in Pennsylvania.
From the Valley we
have rumors of victory, etc.
A thrill of horror
has been produced by a report that Gen. Butler has, for some time past, kept a
number of his prisoners (Confederates) at work in his canal down the river, and
supposing they were Federals, our batteries and gun-boats have been shelling
our own men!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp
Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 309
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