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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 27 (search)
5,000 of whom only were actually engaged, while Lee had 100,000? We know that he did not have 40,000 engaged! Gen. Van Dorn is dead-being killed by a man whose peace he had ruined. More applications for passports to leave the country are coming in-and they are allowed by the Assistant Secretary of War. How could he refuse, since his own family (at least a portion of it) have enjoyed the benefits of sojourning in the North since the war began? A letter was received to-day from Mr. Ranney, president of the N. C., Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad Co., asking the protection of government from harm for violations of the Act of Congress of April 19th, 1862, prohibiting the transportation of cotton within the enemy's lines. He incloses a number of peremptory orders from Lieut.-Gen. Pemberton, dated January 19th, February 16th and 19th, to take large amounts of cotton into the enemy's lines for S. J. Josephs (Jew?), and for Messrs. Clarke, Ford, and Hust, etc. etc. He says