Bright and
beautiful. Rev. Mr. Dashiell called, after services. The prayer for the
President was omitted, by a previous understanding.
Rev. Dr.
Minnegerode, and others, leading clergymen, consider the cause at an end. A
letter from Gen. Lee has been found, and its authenticity vouched for (Rev. Dr.
M. says) by Judge Campbell, in which he avows his conviction that further
resistance will be in vain—but that so long as it is desired, he will do his
utmost in the field.
And Dr. M. has
information of the capture of three divisions of Longstreet since the battle of
Sunday last, with some eight generals among them Lieut.-Gen. Ewell, Major-Gen.
G. W. Custis Lee, etc.
The clergy also seem
to favor a convention, and the resumption by Virginia of her old position in
the Union—minus slavery. Charlottesville has been named as the place for the
assembling of the convention. They also believe that Judge Campbell remained to
treat with the United States at the request of the Confederate States
Government. I doubt. We shall now have no more interference in Cæsar's affairs
by the clergy-may they attend to God's hereafter!
Ten o'clock P.M. A
salute fired—100 guns—from the forts across the river, which was succeeded by
music from all the bands. The guard promenading in front of the house says a
dispatch has been received from Grant announcing the surrender of Lee!
I hear that Gen.
Pickett was killed in the recent battle!
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 473-4
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