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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 12 (search)
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February, 1862
Fall of Fort Henry.
of Fort Donelson.
lugubrious inauguration of the President in the permanent government.
loss of Roanoke Island.
February 1
We had a startling rumor yesterday that New Orleans had been taken by the enemy, without firing a gun. I hastened to the Secretary and asked him if it could be true.
He had not heard of it, and turned pale.
But a moment after, recollecting the day on which it was said the city had fallen, he seized a New Orleans paper of a subsequent date, and said the news could not be true, since the paper made no mention of it.
February 2
The rumor of yesterday originated in the assertion of a Yankee paper that New Orleans would be taken without firing a gun. Some of our people fear it may be so, since Mr. Benjamin's friend, Gen. Lovell, who came from New York since the battle of Manassas, is charged with the defense of the city.
He delivered lectures, it is said, last summer on the defenses of New York — in t