Much rain. The grain is in danger of spoiling. About 200 Rebel prisoners were brought in today. Many are deserting, Lee is making a desperate attempt to escape Mead's army. Our stores are reopening and cleaning up. Gen. Couch's division is following the end of Lee's army thru Greenwood on what is called the Pine Stump Road. We are hoping Lee's army will be captured. If Mead allows him to escape, it will indeed be folly. We hear the Rebel lose at Gettysburg 30,000 men, the Union 20,000. My sons, Jacob and William, just returned from the battlefield. It is a fearful sight. The fields full of dead, by all the roadsides dead are hardly covered by a thin layer of mud. Wreckage everywhere, the implements of war fast disappearing by souvenir seekers. Soon the cultivators plow will cover it all and put an end to military glory. If Lee is allowed to escape this struggle will be prolonged. We hear of only skirmishes all along his route to the Potomac.