A letter from Gen. Lee to the Secretary of War, dated 11th
inst. at Madison C. H., complains of the injury done by the newspapers of
Richmond, which contain early accounts of his movements, and are taken quickly
(by flag of truce? or Gen. Winder's corps of rogues and cut-throats ?) to the
enemy. He says he is endeavoring to strike at Meade, and has already captured,
this week, some 600 of the enemy (cavalry), including that number of horses.
The Secretary sent the requisite notice to the editors.
Gen. Gilmer, at Charleston, suggests the removal of the guns
on the boats in that harbor to land batteries, to be commanded by officers of
the navy.
An order has been sent to Gen. S. Jones, West Virginia, for
the 8th and 14th Regiments Virginia Cavalry.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
71
