The colonel enjoys a joke. He whispered me to-day, as he
beheld Major Tyler doing the honors of his office, that I might just hint at
the possibility of his resumption soon of the functions of chief of the bureau.
But he said he wanted a few days holiday.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 78-9
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