I think this is the situation all over the South. The storehouse in Salisbury had supplies for the soldiers but I understand the poor of Salisbury were in a bad way. My Pace family there were just simple people as Abner was a saddle/harness maker and the only son was away with Lee in Virginia. I have often wondered how they fared during the period of the Civil War--soldiers themselves only received about $11-12 a month (if they got paid at all). I know that Union Gen. Stoneman raided Salisbury in late April 1865 and burned the supplies stored there. It must have destroyed the post-war economy in Salisbury and other parts of NC. Betty Pace On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:18:54 -0700 "Jim Franklin" <jimfranklin@gci-net.com> writes: > I just finished reading "Decision in the West, The Atlanta Campaign > of 1864," by Albert Castel. Page 22 > "The only things in abundant supply are tobacco and paper money. > The Confederate government has printed $1.2 billion of the latter. > Since it cannot be back the dollars with gold and silver, it can > only promise to redeem them when the war and independence are won. > In January 1863 a gold dollar had equaled three Confederate paper > dollars, now after a year of defeats, it is worth twenty of them. > Soaring prices are the inevitable consequence. Residents in > Richmond pay $200 for a barrel of flour, $20 for a bushel of corn, > and three dollars for a pound of bacon-that is if they can afford > it. "How the poor live,"muses a government official, " is > inconceivable." > > Jim > > > ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from RowanRoots-L send a message from the address you > subscribed from to RowanRoots-L-Request@Rootsweb.com with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. > > >