There is a rumor
here to-day that our troops are in possession of both Savannah and Pensacola. I
do not believe it.
What do our leaders
mean to do with us this winter? Here we are, the 3d December, a cold, freezing,
windy day, in our open tents, without intimation of what we are going to do with
no more preparation for winter quarters than we had a month ago. Are we to be
kept in this condition all winter? We are getting tired of McClellan's want of
vim. How long is he going to be "getting ready?" All is conjecture,
except that the wind howls dreadfully around our tents this cold night.
This morning the
three divisions of the army here sent out five hundred to a thousand men each,
to beat the bush. This moment comes the statement that they woke up about four
hundred rebel cavalry, surrounded them, and that they are even now endeavoring
to fight their way out; that they have killed about fifteen of our men; that we
have taken about two hundred prisoners, and are fishing in the dark for the
rest. All this may be true, but I am getting to be a great doubter of the truth
of anything I hear in camp. We shall know all about it to-morrow.
SOURCE: Alfred L.
Castleman, The Army of the Potomac. Behind the Scenes. A Diary of
Unwritten History; From the Organization of the Army, by General George B.
McClellan, to the close of the Campaign in Virginia about the First Day
January, 1863, pp. 58-9
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