JUNE 20th.—Gov. Wise has been appointed brigadier-general, of a subsequent date to General Floyd’s commission. He goes to the West, where laurels grow; but I think it will be difficult to win them by any one acting in a subordinate capacity, and especially by generals appointed from civil life. They are the aversion of the West Pointers at the heads of bureaus.
Civilians appointed as generals “are the aversion of the West Pointers at the heads of bureaus.”—A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the Confederate States Capital, By John Beauchamp Jones
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