The Secretary is still sick. Having nothing better to do,
and seeing that eight-tenths of the letters received are merely applications
for commissions in the regular army — an organization without men — and none
being granted from civil life, I employed myself writing certain articles for
the press, hoping by this means to relieve the Secretary of the useless and
painful labor of dictating negative replies to numberless communications. This
had the sanction of both the President and the Secretary, and produced, in some
measure, the desired relief.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 48
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