Cloudy and sunshine;
but little wind. Too ill to go to the department, and I get nothing new except
what I read in the papers. Some of the editorials are very equivocal, and have
a squint toward reconstruction.
The President, and
one of his Aids, Col. Lubbock, ex-Governor of Texas, rode by my house, going
toward Camp Lee. If driven from this side the Mississippi, no doubt the
President would retire into Texas.
And Lee must gain a
victory soon, or his communications will be likely to be interrupted. Richmond
and Virginia are probably in extreme peril at this moment.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 460
