A Rebel A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the Confederate States Capital Volume 1 and 2: Civil War Classic Library

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Awonderful work of history…by a man at the right place at the right time….a will have to have for any individual who wants facts….Excerpt…. Gen. Lee announces the crossing of the Rappahannock at Port Royal (which the Yankees pillaged) and at places above Fredericksburg. Gen. Stuart is hovering on their flank. A great battle may happen any moment. L. E. Harvey, president of Richmond and Danville Railroad, asks for details to repair locomotives, else day by day trains (freight) will have to be reduced to tri-weekly trains–and then the army can’t be sustained in Virginia. Hon. Mr. Garnett asked (and obtained) permission for a Mr. Hurst (Jew?) to pass our lines, and bring Northern merchandise to Richmond for sale. He vouches for his loyalty to Virginia. Congress has before it a bill rendering this traffic criminal. MAY 2D.–The awful hour, when thousands of human lives are to be sacrificed in the attempt to wrest this city from the Confederate States, has come again. Now parents, wives, sisters, brothers, and little kids, both in the North and in the South, hold their breath in painful expectation. At the last accounts the two armies, the day prior to this, were drawn up in battle array, facing each and every other. No water flowed between them, the Northern army being on this side of the Rappahannock. We haven’t any means of knowing their relative numbers; but I suspect Gen. Hooker commands more than 100,000 men, even as Gen. Lee’s army, in all probability, does not exceed 55,000 efficients.

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