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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 6.51 (search)
Official correspondence of Confederate State Department. [continued]. Letters from Honorable J. P. Holcombe. Montreal, June 16, 1864. Hon. J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State, C. S. A.: Sir — I have very little to communicate since my last dispatch. Some ten or twelve more men have been sent on to take the boat which leaves for Bermuda next week. It is apparent, from all the information I receive, that very few remain who are willing to return at once to the discharge of their duty. There will, however, always during the existence of the war be small parties to be forwarded who have escaped into Canada and who are anxious to rejoin the army. As these will generally consist of brave and enterprising men, I am trying to make some permanent arrangement to furnish them in the most economical way with the necessary means. For this purpose I propose to leave as much as five thousand dollars in the hands of B. Weir & Co., to carry interest until used, to defray these expens