Rained in the night,
clear and cool in the morning.
Gen. Breckinridge’s
division started toward the Valley early this morning.
All is quiet near
the city; but firing has been heard in the direction of Bottom's Bridge.
A man from New Kent
County, coming through the lines, reports that Gen. Grant was quite drunk
yesterday, and said he would try Lee once more, and if he failed to defeat him,
“the Confederacy might go to hell.” It must have been some other general.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel
War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
227
