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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 29: (search)
e. how mismanaged. the Crenshaw contract. small yield of impressments. the whole Confederate policy of subsistence a failure. an extraordinary device of Secretary Seddon. how it played into the hands of speculators. reflection upon the want of the commercial or business faculty in the Southern mind. a stock of childish exprmy. And yet about this time the rolls of the Adjutant-General's office in Richmond showed little more than four hundred thousand men under arms; and of these, Mr. Seddon, the Confederate Secretary of War, declared that, owing to desertions and other causes, not more than a half, never two-thirds of the soldiers were in the ranksices, and thus it naturally and surely happened that the regular supplies of the government were cut off. The whole land was infected by speculators pampered by Mr. Seddon, the Secretary of War; and the soldier, who was without shelter fighting our battles, found himself discriminated against in favour of the private citizen-who,
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 39: (search)
cy. Congress curtails the currency one-third. act of 17th February, 1864.secretary Seddon gives the coup-de-grace to the currency. his new standard of value in whence of the Virginia delegation with reference to the Cabinet. resignation of Mr. Seddon.Personal relations between President Davis and Gen. Lee. why the latter declvalue of property taken by government, were directed by the Secretary of War, Mr. Seddon, to raise the price of wheat to forty dollars per bushel. At this rate the Sure a purer and better administration of the War office, then in the hands of Mr. Seddon, the wreck of a man, a walking skeleton, industrious, but facile, and at a pe of his Cabinet. The President resented the address as impertinent; and when Mr. Seddon, Secretary of War, recognizing the censure as particularly directed against hy or course of his administration, and made it very plain that the course of Mr. Seddon was to be ascribed to his punctilio, and to be taken in no manner as a triump