Nevertheless, I am (temporarily) signing my name to the
passports, yet issued by the authority of the Secretary of War. They are filled
up and issued by three or four of the Provost Marshal's clerks, who are
governed mainly by my directions, as neither Col. Porter nor the clerks, nor
Gen. Winder himself, have the slightest idea of the geography of the country
occupied by the enemy. The clerks are all Marylanders, as well as the
detectives, and the latter intend to remain here to my great chagrin.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 114
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