The remainder of the journey was without interest, until we
arrived at Wythville, Va., where it was discovered Gen. Floyd was in the cars.
He was called out and made a speech in vindication of his conduct at
Washington, as Secretary of War, wherein he had caused the transfer of arms,
etc. from the North to the South. He was then organizing a brigade for the
field, having been commissioned a brigadier-general by the President.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 46
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