A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital

Chapter 14

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Disloyalists entrapped.--Norfolk abandoned.--Merrimac blown up.--Army falling back.--Mrs. Davis leaves Richmond.-- Preparing to burn the tobacco.--Secretary of War trembles for Richmond.--Richmond to be defended.--The tobacco.-- Winking and blinking.--Johnston's great battle.--Wounded himself.--The wounded.--The hospitals. 122