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

“…it was discovered Gen. Floyd was in the cars.”

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

MAY 29TH and 30TH.—The remainder of the journey was with-out interest, until we arrived at Wythville, Va, where it was discovered Gen. Floyd was in the cars. He was called out and made a speech in vindication of his conduct, at Washington, as Secretary of War, wherein he had caused the transfer of arms, etc. from the North to the South. He was then organizing a brigade for the field, having been commissioned a brigadier-general by the President.

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