Bright and beautiful
morning.
All quiet below. Mr.
McRae has been permitted by Gen. Butler to return again to the city to await
his exchange, pledged not to bear arms, etc. Many more of the government
employees, forced into the trenches, would be happy to be in the same
predicament. A great many are deserting under a deliberate conviction that
their rights have been despotically invaded by the government; and that this
government is, and is likely to be, as tyrannous as Lincoln’s. No doubt many
give valuable information to the enemy.
The Superintendent
of the Bureau of Conscription is at open war with the General of Reserves in
Virginia, and confusion is likely to be worse confounded.
Gen. Cooper, A. and
I. General (Pennsylvanian), suggests to the President the appointment of Gen.
Lovell to the command of all the prisons containing Federal captives. Gen.
Lovell, too, is a Northern man.
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