Col. Bledsoe sent for me again. This time he wanted me to
take charge of the letter room, and superintend the young gentlemen who briefed
the letters. This I did very cheerfully; I opened all the letters, and sent to
the Secretary the important ones immediately. These, for want of discrimination,
had sometimes been suffered to remain unnoticed two or three days, when they
required instant action.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 134-4
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