Rained all night;
warm.
A large stable
burned down within sixty yards of our dwelling, last night, and not one of the
family heard the uproar attending it.
Gen. Bragg
telegraphs the President that the enemy failed to reduce Fort Fisher, and that
the troops landed above the fort have re-embarked. But he says the enemy's
designs are not yet developed; and he is such an unlucky general.
We found a
caricature in the old black chest, of 1844, in which I am engaged in fight with
the elder Blair. Calhoun, Buchanan, etc. are in the picture.
It is still believed
that Gen. Lee is to be generalissimo, and most people rejoice at it. It is said
the President and Gen. Jos. E. Johnston have become friends again.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 368
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