Clear and pleasant;
subsequently cloudy and chilly.
All quiet below,
save the occasional booming of our guns from the iron-clads.
The capture of Fort
McAlister, Savannah, has caused a painful sensation. It is believed we have as
many men on the Georgia coast as the enemy; but they are not the men of
property—men of 1861-62; and those without property (many of them) are
reluctant to fight for the benefit of the wealthy class, remaining at home.
The following dispatch from Gen. Bragg was received this morning:
"CHARLESTON,
December 15th, 1864.—My services not being longer needed in this department, I
shall leave this evening for Wilmington, and resume my command.
"Sherman
has opened communication with his new base, by the Ogeechee. The means to meet
him do not exceed one-half the estimate in yours of the 7th instant.
BRAXTON BRAGG."
So ends Gen. Bragg's
campaign against Sherman!
I have not heard
about the President's health to-day. But no papers have come in from his
office.
Lieut. Col. Ruffin,
Commissary Department, certifies (or Col. Northrop for him) that he is
"not fit for duty in the field."
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 355-6
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