Letters came to-day
from the President (or rather copies in his own handwriting), relieving
Lieut.-Gen. Hardee, in Mississippi, and assigning him to a command under Gen.
Bragg. He also writes a friendly letter (from Meridian, Miss.) to Gen. Bragg,
informing him that Gen. Hardee had been ordered to report to him without delay,
and that two brigades might go with him, if needed. This indicates that the
President means to sustain Bragg, notwithstanding the clamor against him; and
that Bragg must have an immense army. Lieut.-Gen. Polk (whom the President will
always sustain) is assigned to the Mississippi Department.
The latest accounts
from Chattanooga show that the enemy are stirring a little, and trying to flank
Bragg's left wing.
The bombardment at
Charleston is still without decisive result.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 84
