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

Rebel War Clerk

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

MARCH 11TH.–I have summed up the amounts of patriotic contributions received by the army in Virginia, and registered on my book, and they amount to 31,515,898.*

The people of the respective States contributed as follows:
North Carolina…………………………. $325,417
Alabama……………………………………..817,600
Mississippi…………………………………..272,670
Georgia……………………………………….244,885
South Carolina……………………………….37,206
Texas……………………………………………..87,800
Louisiana……………………………………….61,950
Virginia*………………………………………..48,070
Tennessee……………………………………..17,000
Florida……………………………………………..2,350
Arkansas…………………………………………….950

* Virginia undoubtedly contributed more than any other State, but they were not registered.

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