John Beauchamp Jones
John Beauchamp Jones (March 6, 1810 – February 4, 1866) was a novelist (particularly of the
American West and the
American South) whose books enjoyed popularity during the mid-19th century and a well-connected literary editor and political journalist in the two decades leading up to the
American Civil War. During the war, he served as a senior clerk in the
Confederate War Department and is today remembered for his diary, published as ''A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital''.
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