“Immediate”
is still there; but the Secretary has not yet been to the council
board, though yesterday was cabinet day. Yet the President sends Capt. Josselyn
regularly with the papers referred to the Secretary. These are always given to
me, and after they are “briefed,” delivered to the Secretary. Among these I see
some pretty sharp pencil marks. Among the rest, the whole batch of Tochman
papers being returned unread, with the injunction that “when papers of such
volume are sent to him for perusal, it is the business of the Secretary to see
that a brief abstract of their contents accompany them.”
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 74
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