Hot and dry; but
heavy rains in other parts of the State.
The 1st Army Corps
moved through the city last night, via the Central and Fredericksburg
Railroads, and this morning Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry corps is passing in the same
direction—9 A.M.
All this indicates a
transferrence of the scene of operations nearer the enemy's country—the relief
of Richmond—the failure of Grant's MAD BULL campaign, prompted by President
Lincoln, who is no general.
Honor to Lee!—the
savior of his country! and the noble band of heroes whom he has led to victory—but
first to God.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel
War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
261
