The latest issue of the Journal of the Rowan Gen. Society published a paper from the Carolina Watchman 18 May 1863. This article said that the Rowan Co. commissioners had agreed to pay in money or provisions to soldiers' indigent wives and mothers and widows, these monthly allowances. $2.00 a month for herself $1.00 a month for each child under 10 years of age I wonder how well these families would dine on these sums. The Commissioner appealed to the citizens of Rowan with spare provisions to sell such at a reasonable price and not sell to speculators. I wonder if this is what brought on the riot in Salisbury when the women attacked stores with hatchets because they believed that the shop owners were charging exorbitant prices an withholding food from their families. Does anyone remember the year of the ladies' attack on the markets? I would wager that most NC counties had a similar procedure for helping the indigent, if they could prove they were indigent. Betty Pace