And, just as I expected, Mr. Benjamin is to be Mr. Walker's
successor. Col. Bledsoe is back again; and it devolved on me to inform Major
Tyler that the old chief of the bureau was now the new chief. Of course
he resigned the seals of office with the grace and courtesy of which he is so
capable. And then he informed me (in confidence) that the Secretary had
resigned, and would be appointed a brigadier-general in the army of the
Southwest; and that he would accompany him as his adjutant-general. .
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 79
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