Mr. Toombs is to be a brigadier-general. That is what I
looked for. The two brothers Cobb are to be colonels; and Orr is to have a regiment.
Mr. Hunter succeeds Toombs in the State Department — and
that disposes of him, if he will stay there. It is to be an obscure place; and
if he were indolent, without ambition, it would be the very place for him. Wise
is done for. He has had several fights, always drawing blood; but when he gets
ready to make a great fight, he is ordered back for fear of his “rashness.”
Exacting obedience in his own subordinates, of course he will obey the orders of
Adjt.-Gen. Cooper. In this manner I apprehend that the three giants of Virginia,
Wise, Hunter, and Floyd, will be neutralized and dwarfed at the behest of West
Point. Napoleon's marshals were privates once — ours — but perhaps West Point
may be killed off in the end, since they rush in so eagerly at the beginning of
the war.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 60
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