After breakfast I
accompanied Gov. Wise to his room. He advised me to remain a few days before
proceeding elsewhere. He still doubted, however, whether Virginia would move
before autumn. He said there was a majority of 500 Union men then in the city.
But the other Convention, to meet on the 16th, might do something. He
recommended me to a friend of his who distributed the tickets, who gave me a card
of admission.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p.18
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