Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

“Flatterer.”—John B. Jones diary at the rebel war office.

June 13, 2011

A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, By John Beauchamp Jones

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JUNE 13TH. —Only one of the Williamsburg volunteers came into the department proper; and he will make his way, for he is a flatterer. He told me he had read my “Wild Western Scenes” twice, and never was so much entertained by any other book. He went to work with hearty good-will.

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