The Secretary has authorized me to sign passports “for the
Secretary of War.” My son attends to his letters. I have now an opportunity of seeing
more. I have authority to order transportation for the parents of soldiers,
and for goods and provisions taken to the camps.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 80
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