I have been requested by Gen. Winder to-day to refuse a passport
to Col. M–––r to leave the city in any direction. So the colonel is within
bounds! I learn that he differed with Gen. Winder (both from Maryland)
in politics. But if he was a Whig, so was Mr. Benjamin. Again, I hear that Col.
M. had some difficulty with Col. Northrop, Commissary-General, and challenged
him. This is a horse of another color. Col. N. is one of the special favorites of
the President.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 85
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