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Title: A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital

Author: John Beauchamp Jones

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Language: English

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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.

PREFACE.

This Diary was written with the knowledge of the President and the
Secretary of War. I informed them of it by note. They did not deprecate
criticism on their official conduct; for they allowed me still to
execute the functions of a very important position in the Government
until the end of its career.

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

J. B. J.

ONANCOCK, Accomac Co., Va.,

_March_, 1866.

CONTENTS.

VOLUME I.

CHAPTER I.

My flight from the North and escape into Virginia.--
Revolutionary scene at Richmond.--The Union Convention
passes the Ordinance of Secession.--Great excitement
prevails in the South. 13

CHAPTER II.

Depart for Montgomery.--Interview with President Davis.--
My position in the Government.--Government removed to
Richmond.--My family. 30

CHAPTER III.

Troops pour into Richmond.--Beginning of hostilities.--
Gen.