by John Beauchamp Jones
APRIL 26TH.—Another truly fine spring day.
The ominous silence on the Rapidan and Rappahannock continues still. The two armies seem to be measuring each other’s strength before the awful conflict begins.
It is said the enemy are landing large bodies of troops at Yorktown.
Major-Gen. Ransom has been assigned to the command of this department; and Gen. Winder’s expectations of promotion are blasted. Will he resign? I think not.
The enemy’s accounts of the battle on the Red River do not agree with the reports we have.
Neither do the Federal accounts of the storming of FortPillow agree with ours.
