Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-05-09
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WASHINGTON, May 5.
The following statement dated yester-
day, on the Raprahannock, has reached
Washington:
4 coiored man came in to day from
the other side of the river, and repre-
Sc hted himself as JEFF Davis coachman.
From an examination of him, this is
probably the truth. He reports scraps
OF conversation overheard while driving
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis in the carriage and
between Mr.. Davis and those who came
to see him. MIR. Davis and Gen. J. +.
johnson had some heated discussions
about the latter's retreat from Ma
nassas. Davis disapproved of it, and
ordered johnson to make stand at
Gordonsville. johnson declined to do
this and offered to resign, and was even
indisposed to go to Yorktown. Mrs.
Davis said she thought this very bad in
him (Johnson) to be unwilling TO go
and help Gen. Magruder.
The coachman overheard conversa-
ton between Johnso Q and the wife of
Davis-the former saying if he had not
left Manassas, Mcclellan would have
come out against him and cut him all
to pieces. ....
Mrs. Davis read an article in the
Richmond Ecaminer to her husband,
saying that it was part of the Yankees
plans that Generals Banks and Me Dowell
were to form a junction in Louisa or
Carolina counties, and move down on
Richmond. Davis remarked he thought
hat huf h. n l. ! l.
care of them.
The coachman overheard a conversa-
tion between Davis and DR.. Gwin, for
'merly U. S, Senator from California
Davis said he had sent Gen. j. r. An
derson from North Carolina to resist
the march of the Federals from Fred
ericksburg, and to delay them long
enough for him to see the probable re-
suit of the contest before Yorktown.
So that if that was likely to be un-
successful, he would have time to ex-
tricate his army from the peninsula and
get them into Richmond and out of
Virginia-that otherwise they would
all be caught. The coachman repre-
sents that Mrs. Davis said that the Con-
| federaey was about played out, and that
if New Orleans was really taken she no
longer had any interest in the matter,
as all she had was there; that it was a
great pity they had ever attempted to
hold Virginia and the other nen cotton
growing States, and that she said to
Mrs. D. R. Jones, daughter of Col. JAS
Taylor, U. S. Commissary General of
Subsistence, who was very anxious to
get to Washington, where she has one
of her children, not to give herself any
trouble but only to stay where she was,
and when the Yankees came to Rich
mond she could go. The coachman
said that Mr.. and Mrs. Davis have all
their books, clothing and pictures
packed up ready to move off; that there
is much. outspoken Union feeling in
richmond; that having been waiter in
a hotel there he knows all the Union
men Of the place, and that the Yankees
are looked for with much pleasure,
more by the whites than even the col
ored people.
| Confederate money is not taken when
it can be avoided. Mrs Davis herself
WAS refused WneH sne Ouefeu SlU lOe-
federate Note.
Many of the Richmond people wish
! the Union troops to come, as they are
half starved out. The Bank and Gov
eminent property is all packed up for
removal to Danviile, near the North
Carolina line.
| Gen. johnson did not think they
would succeed at Yorktown. The coach
man overheard the rebel officers say il
they failed at Yorktown and New Or
leans they would leave Virginia.