A man by the name of Dibble, the identical one I passed
on my way to Montgomery last spring, and whom I then thought acted and spoke
like a Yankee, is here seeking permission to go North; he says to
Halifax. He confesses that he is a Yankee born; but has lived in North Carolina
for many years, and has amassed a fortune. He declares the South does not
contain a truer Southern man than himself; and he says he is going to the
British Provinces to purchase supplies for the Confederacy. He brought me an
order from Mr. Benjamin, indorsed on the back of a letter, for a passport. I
declined to give it; and he departed in anger, saying the Secretary would grant
it. He knew this, for he said the Secretary had promised him one.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 100-1
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