To-day so many applications were made to the Secretary
himself for passports to the armies, and beyond the lines of the Confederate
States, that, forgetting the revocation of his former order, he sent a note
into the Assistant Secretary, saying he thought a passport agent had been
appointed to attend to such cases; and he now directed that it be done. Bledsoe
came to me immediately, and said: “Jones, you'll have to open a passport office
again — I shall sign no more.”
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 134
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