Snowing. We call a halt to our nearly finished work. I must leave for home, arriving there without accident about five P.M. Bodies of John Oaks and Augustus Howser brought home for burial from Fredericksburg. A large concourse of people present at the depot. The condition of our government more gloomy than ever. Nearly 70,000 of our soldiers slain, and we are in debt over 700 millions of dollars. We can see no end to this plundering of our resources. Already the contractors of this war have emptied the treasury. Many of our soldiers going unpaid.