To-day Gen. Winder came into my office in a passion with a passport
in his hand which I had given, a week before, to Mr. Collier, of Petersburg, on
the order of the Assistant Secretary of War — threatening me with vengeance and
the terrors of Castle Godwin, his Bastile! if I granted any more passports to
Petersburg where he was military commander, that city being likewise under
martial law. I simply uttered a defiance, and he departed, boiling over with
rage.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 145-6
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