A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the Confederate States Capital, By John Beauchamp Jones
    

A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary

A likeness of Jones when he was editor and majority owner of the Daily Madisonian during President John Tyler’s administration.

AUGUST 3d.—Cloudy, but no rain.

The press dispatches last night assert that still another raiding party, besides Stoneman’s, was dispersed or captured.

It is rumored to-day that Beauregard has sprung a mine under Grant’s fortifications. This may be so. Later. It was not so.

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