A Marylander, a lieutenant employed by Gen. Winder to guard
the prisoners (the generals and other high Yankee officers), came to me to-day,
with a friend who had just arrived from Baltimore, and demanded passports to
visit Drewry's Bluff, for the purpose of inspecting the defenses. I refused,
fearing he might (I did not like his face) have been corrupted by his
prisoners. He said very significantly that he would go in spite of me. This I
reported to the Assistant Adjutant-General, and also wrote a note to Gen. Wise,
to examine him closely if he came within his lines.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 145
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