Chapter XXV

Symptoms of bread riots.--Lee forming depots of provisions
near the Rappahannock.--Beauregard ready to defend
Charleston.--He has rebuffed the enemy severely.--French and
British advancing money on cotton.--The Yankees can beat us
in bargaining.--Gen. Lee anxious for new supplies.--The
President appeals to the people to raise food for man and
beast.--Federal and Confederate troops serenading each other
on the Rappahannock.--Cobbler's wages $3000 per annum.--
Wrangling in the Indian country.--Only 700 conscripts per
month from Virginia.--Longstreet at Suffolk.--The
President's well eye said to be failing.--A
"reconnoissance!"--We are planting much grain.--Picking up
pins.--Beautiful season.--Gen. Johnston in Tennessee.--
Longstreet's successes in that State.--Lee complains that
his army is not fed.--We fear for Vicksburg now.--Enemy
giving up plunder in Mississippi.--Beauregard is busy at
Charleston.--Gen. Marshall, of Kentucky, fails to get
stock and hogs.--Gen. Lee calls for Longstreet's corps.--
The enemy demonstrating on the Rappahannock. 284