An Englishman, who has been permitted to go North, publishes
there a minute and pretty accurate description of our river defenses.
I have written a leading article for the Whig to-morrow,
on “Martial Law and Passports.” My plan is to organize committees in all the
border counties to examine the passports of strangers seeking egress from the
country and to permit loyal citizens, not desiring to pass our borders,
or the lines of the armies, to travel without passports. An officer and a squad
of soldiers at the depots can decide what soldiers are entitled to pass on the
roads.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 171
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