A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital

Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. 'A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital' is one of the best sources of everyday life in Richmond during the Civil War. It also brings valuable information concerning the inner workings of the War Department. This book is the result of meticulous work done by a high-ranking government clerk in the Confederate States War Department who kept a diary from the first day of his flight with the expressed objective of preserving the details of these eventful times for future publication.

John Beauchamp Jones (1810 - 1866) was a popular novelist, particularly of the American West and the American South, and a well-connected literary editor and political journalist in the two decades leading up to the American Civil War. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate War Department, and is today above all remembered for his published diary from the war period.