Clear and cool;
rained in the night.
Gen. J. H. Morgan is
dead,—surprised and killed in Tennessee,—and his staff captured.
Gen. Hood telegraphs
that the enemy is still retreating—toward Atlanta, I suppose.
The cruiser
Tallahassee having run into Wilmington, that port is now pretty effectually
closed by an accumulation of blockaders.
It is said Gen.
Forrest has blown up Tunnel Hill; if so, Sherman must be embarrassed in getting
supplies of ordnance stores.
Sir Wm. Armstrong
has sent from England one or two splendid guns (a present) to our government,
with equipments, etc. And the manufacturers have presented us with a
battery of Whitworth guns, six in number, but they have not arrived yet.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel
War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
278-9
