Gen. Lee is bringing forward the conscript regiments with
rapidity; and so large are his powers that the Secretary of War has but little
to do. He is, truly, but a mere clerk. The correspondence is mostly referred to
the different bureaus for action, whose experienced heads know what should be
done much better than Mr. Randolph could tell them.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 142
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