A

REBEL WAR CLERK’S

DIARY

AT THE

CONFEDERATE STATES CAPITAL.

BY

J. B. JONES,

CLERK IN THE WAR DEPARTMENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES GOVERNMENT;
AUTHOR OF “WILD WESTERN SCENES,” ETC. ETC.

VOLS. I and II.

PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1866.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,

In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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PREFACE.

This Diary was written with the knowledge of the President and theSecretary of War. I informed them of it by note. They did not deprecatecriticism on their official conduct; for they allowed me still toexecute the functions of a very important position in the Governmentuntil the end of its career.

My discriminating friends will understand why I accepted the poor titleof a clerkship, after having declined the Chargéship to Naples,tendered by Mr. Calhoun during the administration of President Polk.

J. B. J.

Onancock, Accomac Co., Va.,
March, 1866.

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CONTENTS.