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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXXV. February, 1864 (search)
of successes, for the administration at Washington will find, this year, constant antagonisms everywhere, in the North as well as in the South, and in the army there will be opposing parties-Republicans and Democrats. On the part of the South, we have experienced the great agony of 1863, and have become so familiar with horrors that we shall fight with a fearful desperation. But the dispatch: Glorious news! The whole Yankee force, about 150, are our prisoners, and their gun-boat Smith Briggs, destroyed. No one hurt on our side. Four Yankees killed and two or three wounded. The prisoners are now at Broad Water. Send down a train for them to-morrow. We learn that this Yankee force was commissioned to destroy a large factory at Smithfield, in Isle of Wight County. We do not know the size or composition of our command which achieved the results noticed above, but understand that it contained two companies of the Thirty-first North Carolina Regiment. Congress h