Prisoners and deserters from the enemy say the Yankees get
the Richmond papers, every day, almost as soon as we do. This is a great
advantage they possess; and it demonstrates the fact that the Provost Marshal
has interposed no effectual barriers between us and the enemy.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 128-9
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