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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 7 1 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 4 2 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 3 1 Browse Search
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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 12 (search)
n Greensboroa, near which the Confederate troops were in bivouac, before daybreak on the 19th. Colonel Archer Anderson, adjutant-general of the army, gave me two papers addressed to me by the President. The first directed me to obtain from Mr. J. N. Hendren, treasury agent, thirty-nine thousand dollars in silver, which was in his hands, subject to my order, and to use it as the military chest of the army. The second, received subsequently by Colonel Anderson, directed me to send this money tovernment had then any existence, I thought that a fair share of the fund still left should be appropriated to the benefit of the army, especially as the troops had received no pay for many months. This sum (except twelve hundred dollars which Mr. Hendren said that the Commissary-General had taken) was divided among the troops irrespective of rank, each individual receiving the same share. As there was reason to suppose that the Confederate Executive had a large sum in specie in its posses