No news from the armies.
Mrs. ex-President Tyler, who has already been permitted to
visit her native State, New York, once or twice during the war — and indeed her
plantation has been within the enemy's lines — has applied for passage in a
government steamer (the Lee) to Nassau, and to take with her "a few bales
of cotton." I suppose it will be "allowed."
We have fine hot August weather now, and I hope my tomatoes
will mature, and thus save me two dollars per day. My potatoes have, so far,
failed; but as they are still green, perhaps they may produce a crop later in
the season. The lima beans, trailed on the fence, promise an abundant crop; and
the cabbages and peppers look well. Every inch of the ground is in cultivation —
even the ash-heap, covered all over with tomato-vines.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p. 9
