Another day of sleet and
gloom. The pavements are almost impassable from the enamel of ice; large
icicles hang from the houses, and the trees are bent down with the weight of
frost.
The mails have failed, and
there is no telegraphic intelligence, the wires being down probably. It rained
very fast all day yesterday, and I apprehend the railroad bridges have been
destroyed in many places.
The young men (able-bodied)
near the Secretary of War and the Assistant Secretary, at the War Department,
say, this morning, that both have resigned.
It is said the Kentucky
Congressmen oppose the acceptance of the portfolio of war by Gen. Breckinridge.
Whoever accepts it must
reform the conscription business and the passport business, else the cause will
speedily be lost. Most of our calamities may be traced to these two sources.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp
Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 394-5
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