Many amusing scenes occur daily between the Chief of the
Bureau and applicants for passports. Those not included specially in the
Secretary's instructions, are referred to the Chief of the Bureau; and Col.
Bledsoe cannot bear importunity. Sometimes he becomes so very boisterous that
the poor applicants are frightened out of the office.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary
at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 67
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