Cloudy and cold, but
wind southeast.
The sullen sound of
cannon heard this morning as usual down the river. I hear of no active
operations there, although the ground is sufficiently frozen to bear horses and
artillery.
Rumors of successes
on the part of Sherman near Savannah are still in circulation.
The rich men are
generally indignant at the President and Gov. Smith for proposing to bring a
portion of the negroes into the army. They have not yet awakened to a
consciousness that there is danger of losing all, and of their being made to
fight against us. They do not even remove them beyond the reach of the enemy,
and hundreds are daily lost, but still they slumber on. They abuse the
government for its impressments, and yet repose in fancied security, holding
the President responsible for the defense of the country, without sufficient
men and adequate means.
The following
dispatch from Gen. Bragg was received to-day at 10 P.M.:
"AUGUSTA,
Dec. 12th. "The telegraph having been cut, we get nothing from Savannah. A
dispatch from Wheeler gives a copy of enemy's order for the line of investment
around Savannah. It is about eight miles from the city, and was to have been
reached on the 9th.
"B. BRAGG."
I have at length
succeeded in getting a suit of clothes; it was made at the government shop for
$50, the trimmings having been found (in the house) by my wife. The suit, if
bought of a merchant and made by the city tailors, would cost some $1000. A
Yankee prisoner (deserter) made the coat at a low price. The government means
to employ them, if they desire it, in this manner. I am very thankful for my
good fortune.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 353-4
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