Bright and
beautiful. Indian summer apparently.
All quiet below—but
it is anticipated by some that a battle will occur to-day, or in a day or so.
The enemy's negro
troops have been brought to this side of the river, and are in full view on
picket duty.
The Signal Bureau
reports a large number of transports descending the Potomac a few days ago;
probably Sheridan's army, to reinforce Grant.
And yet our
conscription superintendents, under orders, are busily engaged furloughing and
detailing the rich slaveowners! It is developing a rapidly growing Emancipation
party, for it is the establishment of a privileged class, and may speedily
prove fatal to our cause. Our leaders are mad, and will be destroyed, if they
persist in this policy.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 348-9
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