Monday, August 21, 2023

A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary

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A likeness of Jones when he was editor and majority owner of the Daily Madisonian during President John Tyler’s administration.

AUGUST 21st, FRIDAY.—This is a day appointed by the President for humiliation, fasting, and prayer. Yet the Marylanders in possession of the passport office report the following in the Dispatch of this date: “Passports.—The passport office was besieged yesterday and last night by large crowds of persons soliciting permission to leave the city, in order [...]

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