Warm, and raining
moderately.
My landlord gets
$400 of the $500 increase of my salary.
Dispatches from Gen.
Bragg :
AUGUSTA,
December 1st, 1864. Following received from Lieut.-Gen. R. Taylor, Savannah,
Ga.: “Gen. Hardee is at Grahamville. No fighting there since yesterday evening,
when the enemy was driven five miles, leaving their dead upon the field.—B. B.”
Another :
AUGUSTA,
December 1st, 1864, 12 M.—The (enemy's) cavalry having been driven in, the
enemy's main force was yesterday found near Louisville, with strong outposts in
this direction. They have secured large supplies in the country; but our
cavalry is now all up, and it is hoped they will be prevented to a great extent
in the future. The report from Savannah, of the enemy's entrance into Millen,
on the 27th, was premature. Telegraphic communication was reopened to Savannah
by that route yesterday. The enemy is just now reported as at Station 9, on Central
Railroad, advancing.—B. B.
During the last
month, 100 passports were given to leave the Confederate States by Provost
Marshal Carrington and War Department.
Mr. G. B. Lamar,
Savannah, Ga., tenders his services to go to New York and purchase supplies for
our prisoners in the hands of the enemy, and to negotiate the sale of 1000
bales of cotton, etc. Twelve M. Heavy and pretty rapid shelling is heard down
the river.
Col. Chandler,
Inspecting Officer, makes an ugly report of Gen. Winder's management of the
prisons in Georgia. Brig.-Gen. Chilton appends a rebuking indorsement on Gen.
W.'s conduct. The inspector characterizes Gen. W.'s treatment of the prisoners
as barbarous, and their condition as a "hell on earth." And Gen. W.
says his statements are "false."
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 345
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