Yesterday evening
several trains laden with wounded arrived in the city. The remains of Brig.-Gen.
T. R. R. Cobb, of Georgia, were brought down. Brig.-Gen. Gregg, of South
Carolina, is said to be mortally wounded. It is now believed that Major-Gen.
Hood, of Texas, did not fall. The number of our killed and wounded is
estimated, by a surgeon who came with the wounded, to be not over a thousand.
To-day, stragglers
from the battle-field say that our loss in killed and wounded is 3000. It is
all conjecture.
There was heavy
skirmishing all day yesterday, and until to day at noon, when the telegraph
operator reports that the firing had ceased. We know not (yet) what this means.
We are still sending artillery ammunition to Gen. Lee.
Gen. Evans
dispatches from Kinston, N. C., that on the 14th, yesterday, he repulsed the
enemy, 15,000 strong, and drove them back to their boats in Neuse River. A portion
of Gen. R. A. Pryor's command, in Isle of Wight County, was engaged with the
enemy's advance the same day. They have also landed at Gloucester Point. This
is pronounced a simultaneous attack on our harbors and cities in Virginia and
North Carolina. Perhaps we shall have more before night. Our people seem
prepared for any event.
Another long train of
negroes have just passed through the city, singing, to work on the fortifications.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 213-4
