Major Tyler has been appointed acting Chief of the Bureau of War. SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones,  A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at th...

Matters in statu quo, and Major Tyler still acting chief of the bureau. SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones,  A Rebel War Clerk's Diary...

The colonel enjoys a joke. He whispered me to-day, as he beheld Major Tyler doing the honors of his office, that I might just hint at the p...

And, just as I expected, Mr. Benjamin is to be Mr. Walker's successor. Col. Bledsoe is back again; and it devolved on me to inform Majo...

The major is sick again, and Jacques is away; therefore I have too much work, and the colonel groans for me. He is proud of the appointment...

Early this morning, Major Tyler was seated in the Secretary's chair, prepared to receive the visitors. This, I suppose, was of course i...

Major Tyler's health has improved, but I do not perceive a resumption of his old intimate relations with the Secretary. Yet he is doing...

These simple things provoked some remarks from the young gentlemen in the department, and gave rise to predictions that he would soon suppl...

The Secretary said to me to-day that he desired my young friend, the classical teacher, to assist me in writing letters. I told him I neede...

To-day, receiving dispatches from General Floyd, in Western Virginia, that ten thousand Yankees were advancing through Fayette County, and ...

This morning Col. Bledsoe came in with his letters, some fifty in number, looking haggard and worn. It was, indeed, a vast number. But with...