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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 29 (search)
tary of War, and I hope he will act on it; but the Assistant Secretary and Mr. Benjamin were busy to-day-perhaps combating the Attorney-General's opinion. Will Mr. Seddon have the nerve to act? It is a trying time, and every man is needed for defense. The enemy were drawn up in line of battle this morning below the fortificaor its fall would be the loss of the State. I learn a subsequent dispatch announced that fighting had begun. I believe Johnston is intrenched. To-day Mr. Secretary Seddon requested Attorney-General Watts, if he could do so consistent with duty, to order a nolle prosequi in the District Court of Alabama in the case of Ford, H Again the Enquirer, edited by Mitchel, the Irishman, is urging the President to seize arbitrary power; but the Examiner combats the project defiantly. Mr. Secretary Seddon, who usually wears a sallow and cadaverous look, which, coupled with his emaciation, makes him resemble an exhumed corpse after a month's interment, looks
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 43 (search)
, which were fried for dinner — a scanty repast. September 14 Bright and cold. Gen. Lee is in the city, looking after recruits, details, etc. Mr. Secretary Seddon appears to be in very high spirits to-day, and says our affairs are by no means so desperate as they seem on the surface. I hope the good coming will come. The President has had the porch of his house, from which his son fell, pulled down. A private letter from Vice-President Stephens was received by Mr. Secretary Seddon to-day. The cannonading ceased at sundown. The papers, to-morrow, will inform us what it was all about. Sunday is not respected in war, and I know nn a strictly confidential letter to Mr. J. B. Crenshaw, of this city (which has gone on the files of the department), begging him to use his influence with Mr. Secretary Seddon (which is great) to get permission for her to send fourteen negroes, emancipated by her late husband's will, to Ohio. She says there is but one able to be
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 47 (search)
f the committee (Mr. Mce-?) selected by Mr. Secretary Seddon to hunt up flour for Gen. Lee's army, hking Lee generalissimo. It is again said Mr. Seddon will resign, and be followed by Messrs. Benj seems he never applies the remedy. Mr. Secretary Seddon thinks Mr. Peck's explanation of his pu this morning says very positively that Mr. Secretary Seddon has resigned. Not a word about Messrs. It is said the President refuses to accept Mr. Seddon's resignation. A rumor has sprung up to hear nothing more about Gen. Breckinridge as Mr. Seddon's successor, but he is the guest of the old it end in? No successors yet announced to Seddon and CampbellSecre-tary and Assistant Secretary indulge in so many of them as the judge and Mr. Seddon have done, else all is lost! The judge's suy ignoring his empire erected in Mexico. Mr. Seddon still awaits his successor. He has removed ense. Mr. Foote has been denouncing Mr. Secretary Seddon for selling his wheat at $40 per bushel[7 more...]
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 48 (search)
ermasters, enrolling officers, and most of the generals. Judge Campbell was closeted for hours last night with Mr. Secretary Seddon at the department. I have not recently seen Mr. Hunter. We have news from the Eastern Shore of Virginia. My ing made for its evacuation. The stores will be brought here for Lee's army. What will be the price of gold then? Mr. Seddon has published a correspondence with the President, showing why he resigned which was a declaration on the part of Congrs men are offended, supposing themselves to be overslaughed or neglected. The published letter taking leave of Mr. Secretary Seddon rasps Congress severely, and is full of professions of esteem, etc. for the retiring Secretary. The members of Cors of age advertise the location of their places of business as collectors of tax in kind, Capt. Wellford, a kinsman of Mr. Seddon, among the rest, the very men the bill was intended to remove! Alas for Breckinridge and independence 1 The follow