Statistics for occurrence #1 of “General J. S. Preston” in chapter 47 of J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary:

...n North Carolina, within the enemy's lines. Also one relating to instructions to Gen. Smith, trans-Mississippi Department, who assumes control of matters pertaining to the Treasury Department. General J. S. Preston , Superintendent Bureau of Conscription, writes a long letter from South Carolina indorsing an act of the Legislature authorizing the impressment of one-fifth of the slaves between eighteen and fifty,...
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