There is trouble with Mr. Tochman, who was authorized to
raise a regiment or so of foreigners in Louisiana. These troops were called (by
whom ?) the Polish Brigade, though, perhaps, not one hundred Polanders were on
the muster-rolls; Major Tochman being styled General Tochman by “everybody,”
he has intimated to the President his expectation of being commissioned a brigadier.
The President, on his part, has promptly and emphatically, as is sometimes his
wont, declared his purpose to give him no such commission. He never, for a moment,
thought of making him more than a colonel. To this the major demurs, and
furnishes a voluminous correspondence to prove that his claims for the position
of brigadier-general had been recognized by the Secretary of War.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 72
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