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The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ion as they might most conducive to this end, a meeting of the chiefs of bureaus and clerks in the General Post-Office department was yesterday held in one of the large halls of that building, which was organized by calling to the Chair Mr. H. St. George Offutt, Acting Postmaster General, and the selection of J. B. Ezed as Secretary. In brief but patriotic words the Chairman conveyed to the meeting the request of our Chief Magistrate, and it would be less than justice to omit expressing the opinion of all present that the ardent devotion to the success of our cause which prompted and inspired that request, suffered no diminution in its translation into Mr. Offutt's an assuming but eloquent language. The meeting was immediately organized into a corps of defence of the city of Richmond at such time and in such manner, but not to conflict with the proper discharge of their official duties, as would be indicated by the Secretary of War, through whom its services, on the above condit