Snowed two inches
last night. Cloudy and damp this morning.
Guns were heard down
the river last night at a late hour. Perhaps it was nothing more than shelling
the enemy's canal.
We have nothing yet
authentic from Georgia; but many rumors of much fighting.
It is said Gen.
Hampton has got in front of the enemy's column at the Weldon Railroad, and is
driving them back. Gen. Hill, it is presumed, is this side of them.
It is also reported
that Gen. Longstreet is now (12 M.) attacking the enemy on this side of the
river, and driving them. Distant guns can be heard southeast of us, and it may
be true.
Major Cummings,
Confederate States, Georgia, dispatches that "the railroad between Atlanta
and Chattanooga should be repaired immediately, to bring off supplies from
Middle Tennessee. Gen. Bragg concurs.
The following was
received from Gen. Bragg to-day, 11 A.M.:
AUGUSTA,
December 10th, 1864.—The following dispatch is just received from Gen. Wheeler,
twenty-seven miles from Savannah, 10 P.M., 8th December. Enemy are still moving
toward Savannah, obstructing the road in the rear, and resisting warmly this
morning. I cannot learn that any have crossed the Savannah River. I hear
artillery firing, far in my front; do not know what it means: 14th corps and
Kilpatrick's cavalry on the river road; 15th on middle ground road; and 17th,
and probably 20th, on Central Railroad.
I
think the force on the right bank of Ogeechee must be small.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 350-1
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