Both Gen. Jackson and Gen. Stuart were in the department
to-day. Their commands have preceded them, and must be near Orange C. H. by
this time. These war-worn heroes (neither of them over forty years of age)
attracted much attention. Everybody wished to see them; and if they had
lingered a few minutes longer in the hall, a crowd would have collected,
cheering to the echo. This they avoided, transacting their business in the
shortest possible space of time, and then escaping observation. They have yet
much work to do.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 147
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