Clear and cold.
Lincoln is
re-elected, and has called for a million of men! This makes
many of our croaking people despondent; others think it only a game of brag.
I saw the President
to-day in earnest conversation with several members of Congress, standing in
the street. It is not often he descends from his office to this mode of
conference.
Some one of the
family intimating that stains of blood were on my undershirts (second hand), I
was amused to see Mrs. J. lifting them with the tongs. They
have been thoroughly washed, and prove to be a first-rate article. I am proud
of them, for they are truly comfortable garments.
Gen. Forrest is
doing wonders in Tennessee, as the appended dispatch from Gen. Beauregard shows
:
TUSCUMBIA, ALA., Nov. 8th, 1864.
GEN.
S. COOPER, A. AND I. GENERAL.
Gen.
Forrest reports on the 5th instant that he was then engaged fighting the enemy
at Johnsonville, having already destroyed four gun-boats, of eight guns each,
fourteen steamers, and twenty barges, with a large quantity of quartermaster
and commissary stores, on the landing and in warehouses, estimated at between
seventy-five and one hundred thousand tons. Six gun-boats were then
approaching, which he hoped to capture or destroy.
G. T. BEAUREGARD.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 330-1
