Gen. Lee is to have command of all the armies — but will not
be in the field himself. He will reside here. Congress passed an act to create a
commanding general; but this was vetoed, for trenching on the executive
prerogative — or failed in some way. The proceedings were in secret session.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 117
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