Friday, April 22, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 20, 1862

We have now a solution of the secret of Pope's familiarity with the country. His guide and pilot is the identical Robt. Stewart who was sent here to the Provost Marshal a prisoner. How did he get out? They say money did it.

SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 150

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