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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 46 (search)
t night; and it will be ten o'clock to-day before our reinforcements can reach there. I hope our stores (commissary) will not be lost — as usual. Mr. S. Norris, Signal Bureau, has just (1 P. M.) sent the following: I am just informed that Mr. Smithers, telegraph operator at Gordonsville, is again in his office. He says fighting is going oh in sight — that troops from Richmond have arrived, and arriving --and it is expected that Gen. Lomax will be able to drive the enemy back. Just before 3 P. M. to-day a dispatch came from Mr. Smithers, telegraph operator at Gordonsville, dated 1 o'clock, saying the enemy have been repulsed and severely punished, and are retreating the way they came, toward Sperryville. He adds that many of the enemy's dead now lie in sight of the town. So much for this gleam of good fortune, for I believe the military authorities here Were meditating an evacuation of the city. Gen. Custis Lee was at the department to-day, after the clerks detailed from