Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 1, 1861

I find that only a few hundred alien enemies departed from the country under the President's proclamation, allowing them forty days, from the 10th of August, to make their arrangements; but under the recent order of Mr. Benjamin, if I may judge from the daily applications, there will be a large emigration. The persons now going belong to a different class of people: half of them avowing themselves friendly to our cause, and desiring egress through our lines on the Potomac, or in the West, to avoid being published as alien enemies going under flag of truce via Norfolk find Fortress Monroe. Many of them declare a purpose to return.

SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 82-3