Bright and pleasant
weather.
We are still in
uncertainty as to our fate, or whether an oath of allegiance will be demanded.
Efforts by Judge
Campbell, Jos. R. Anderson, N. P. Tyler, G. A. Myers and others, are being made
to assemble a convention which shall withdraw Virginia from the Confederacy.
Hundreds of civil
employees remained, many because they had been required to volunteer in the
local defense organization or lose their employment, and the fear of being
still further perfidiously dealt with, forced into the army, notwithstanding
their legal exemptions. Most of them had families whose subsistence depended
upon their salaries. It is with governments as with individuals, injustice is
sooner or later overtaken by its merited punishment.
The people are
kinder to each other, sharing provisions, etc. A New York paper says Gen. H. A.
Wise was killed; we hear nothing of this here.
Roger A. Pryor is
said to have remained voluntarily in Petersburg, and announces his abandonment
of the Confederate States cause.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 473
No comments:
Post a Comment