A pretty general jail delivery is now taking place. Gen.
Winder, acting I suppose, of course, under the instructions of the Secretary of
War — and Mr. Benjamin is now Secretary indeed — is discharging from the
prisons the disloyal prisoners sent hither during the last month by Gens.
Johnston, Floyd, and Wise. Not only liberating them, but giving them
transportation to their homes, mostly within the enemy's lines. Surely if the
enemy reciprocates such magnanimous courtesy, the war will be merely child's
play, and we shall be spared the usual horrors of civil war. We shall see how
the Yankees will appreciate this kindness.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 82
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