SEPTEMBER 11th.—The colonel enjoys a joke. He whispered me today, as he beheld Major Tyler doing the honors of his office, that I might just hint at the possibility of his resumption soon of the functions of chief of the bureau. But he said he wanted a few days holiday.
Rebel War Clerk
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