by John Beauchamp Jones
SEPTEMBER 16TH.—Bright and pleasant—the weather.
Gen. Hood telegraphs that his army is so much mortified at the feeble resistance it made toSherman, that he is certain it will fight better the next time.
Mr. Benjamin asks a passport and transportation for Mrs. Jane L. Brant, who goes toEurope in the employment of the government.
Gen. Morgan’s funeral took place to-day. None were allowed to see him; for the coffin was not opened. On the way toHollywoodCemetery, Gen. Ewell received a dispatch that our pickets were driven in at Chaffin’s Farm. This demonstration of the enemy compelled him to withdraw the military portion of the procession, and they were hurried off to the battle-field.
The local troops (clerks, etc.) are ordered to assemble at 5 P.M. to day. What does Grant mean? He chooses a good time, if he means anything serious; for our people, and many of the troops, are a little despondent. They are censuring the President again, whose popularity ebbs and flows.
