To-day, receiving dispatches from General Floyd, in Western
Virginia, that ten thousand Yankees were advancing through Fayette County, and
might intercept railroad communication between Richmond and Chattanooga — the
Secretary got me to send a telegraphic dispatch to his family to repair hither
without delay, for military reasons. About this time the Secretary's
health gave way again, and Major Tyler had another fit of indisposition totally
disqualifying him for business. Hence I have nearly all the correspondence of the
department on my hands, since Col. Bledsoe has ceased to write.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 52
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