Major-Gen. Breckinridge, it is said, is to command in
Southwestern Virginia near the Kentucky line, relieving Major-Gen. Sam Jones.
Yesterday the cabinet decided to divide the clerks into
three classes. Those under eighteen and over forty-five, to have the increased
compensation; those between those ages, who shall be pronounced unable for
field service, also to have it; and all others the Secretaries may certify to
be necessary, etc. This will cover all their cousins, nephews, and pets, and
exclude many young men whose refugee mothers and sisters are dependent on their
salaries for subsistence. Such is the unvarying history of public functionaries.
Gen. Pickett, finding Newbern impregnable, has fallen back,
getting off his prisoners, etc. But more troops are going to North Carolina.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel
War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
144
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