DECEMBER 21st.—We have dispatches to-day from Western Virginia, giving hope of the capture of Averill and his raiders.
Such is the scarcity of provisions, that rats and mice have mostly disappeared, and the cats can hardly be kept off the table.
A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary
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