Gen. Winder getting wind of what was going on, had an
interview, first with Mr. Benjamin, who instructed him what to say; and then
bringing forward the Provost Marshal, they had a rather stormy interview with
Mr. Randolph, who, as usual, yielded to their protestations against having two
passport offices, while martial law existed.
And so Col. Bledsoe came in and told me to “shut up shop.”
The Secretary had revoked his order.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 133
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