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Tag Archives: prices
15 March 1865: “If you can’t get the gold I would get the things wh. you will most surely want, & get yourself some more green tea now while you can. I can’t bear to think of your getting out of it.”
Item description: Letter, dated 15 March, 1865, from Edward Porter Alexander to his wife Bettie Mason Alexander. [Item transcription available below images.] Item citation: From the Edward Porter Alexander Papers, #7, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Bettie Alexander, Confederate money, Edward Porter Alexander, gold, prices, promotions, shortages, Virginia
Comments Off on 15 March 1865: “If you can’t get the gold I would get the things wh. you will most surely want, & get yourself some more green tea now while you can. I can’t bear to think of your getting out of it.”
8 December 1864: “the darkest and most gloomy time we have experienced since the war”
Item Description: Letter dated 8 December 1864 to Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir of East Fork of Pigeon, Haywood County, N.C. Item Citation: Folder 155, Lenoir Family Papers, #426, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel … Continue reading
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Tagged Catawba Springs, clothing, Col. Lowe, health, Lenoir family, marriage, prices, social conditions, social life
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12 December 1863: “Negro property is looked on as almost valueless in the situation. Negro men are being sold in market for 100 gallons of brandy.”
Item description: Entry, dated 12 December 1863, from the diary of David Schenck. More about David Schenck: David Schenck (1835-1902), son of a doctor and apothecary of Lincolnton, N.C., attended Judge Fearson’s Law School in Rockford, N.C., and received his … Continue reading
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Tagged commodities, crimes, David Schenck, deserters, prices, sale of slaves, social conditions
Comments Off on 12 December 1863: “Negro property is looked on as almost valueless in the situation. Negro men are being sold in market for 100 gallons of brandy.”
4 October 1863: “The revival in our Brigade is still going on and there are a good many converts every day and almost everybody is becoming serious.”
Item description: In this letter, 4 October 1863, James Augustus Graham, an officer in Company G (Orange Guards), 27th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, wrote home to his mother, updating her on his travel back to camp near Gordonsville, Va. He … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 27th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, clothing, Gordonsville Va., James Augustus Graham, Orange Guards, prices, prisoners-of-war, railroads, Raleigh N.C., religious revivals, Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
Comments Off on 4 October 1863: “The revival in our Brigade is still going on and there are a good many converts every day and almost everybody is becoming serious.”
5 September 1863: “I bought the reader at the time she wrote but could not find the other books. I have since found it and it is the only one to be found in Richmond”
Item description: Letter, 5 September 1863, from William Henry Joyner Jr., to his mother Julia Joyner. William writes from Richmond and describes the availability of various goods in the city, noting especially the high price of books. Item Citation: From folder 13 … Continue reading
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Tagged commodities prices, Joyner Family, prices, Richmond, scarcity, Virginia, William H. Joyner Jr.
Comments Off on 5 September 1863: “I bought the reader at the time she wrote but could not find the other books. I have since found it and it is the only one to be found in Richmond”
5 June 1863: “I think that if I was a lawyer I would argue that extortioners are beyond the law, not entitled to its protections, and every one has a right to help himself from their possessions.”
Item description: Letter, 5 June 1863, from Lafayette McLaws to his brother William Raymond McLaws (1819-1880). Item citation: From folder 7 in the Lafayette McLaws Papers, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: Raccoon Ford on … Continue reading
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Tagged extortion, Lafayette McLaws, prices, Raccoon Ford, Rapidan River, scarcity, Vicksburg, Virginia, William Raymond McLaws
Comments Off on 5 June 1863: “I think that if I was a lawyer I would argue that extortioners are beyond the law, not entitled to its protections, and every one has a right to help himself from their possessions.”
3 April 1863: “The house servant that you wanted to buy, when down, I have not seen one that is for sale that I thought would suit.”
Item description: Note, 3 April 1863, to Ann McNeely of Salisbury, N.C., from W.T. Gilmore about the sale of cotton and the purchase of a house servant. Item citation: From folder 6 of the Macay and McNeely Family Papers #447, Southern … Continue reading
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Tagged cotton, house slaves, McNeely family, North Carolina, prices, Salisbury, scarcity, servants, slaves, W.T. Gilmore
Comments Off on 3 April 1863: “The house servant that you wanted to buy, when down, I have not seen one that is for sale that I thought would suit.”
8 March 1863: “you wish to no how i got out of coming to the armey i was over age the call was from 18 to 40”
Item description: Letter, 8 March 1863, to Edwin Keiger in Kinston, N.C., from Joseph Boles in Raleigh, N.C.The letter describes the inflated prices for food, horses, and other goods during the Civil War. Included is discussion of why Boles was not … Continue reading
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Tagged Edwin Keiger, food, horses, Joseph Boles, Kinston, North Carolina, prices
Comments Off on 8 March 1863: “you wish to no how i got out of coming to the armey i was over age the call was from 18 to 40”
11 December 1861: AN ORDINANCE FOR SUPPRESSING OPPRESSIVE SPECULATION UPON THE PRESENT NECESSITIES OF THE PEOPLE
Item description: An ordinance by North Carolina’s Secession Convention prohibiting speculation on “corn or other grain growing in the fields, or any other corn or grain, pork, or beef, either fish, salted or smoked, cheese, fish, coffee, sugar, tea, salt, … Continue reading
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Tagged commodities, economic conditions, food, food shortage, goods, laws, North Carolina, ordinances, prices, Secession Convention, speculation, supplies
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8 December 1861: “Evey Man Woman & Child would sign a petition to that effect. Except the distillers.”
Item description: Letter from George A. McManners to William A. Graham. McManners urged Governor Graham to take up the question of whiskey taxation at the convention to prevent corn speculation and to protect his political standing with the people of … Continue reading
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Tagged commodities, corn, food shortage, North Carolina, North Carolina Convention, prices, speculation, Stay Law, taxes, whiskey
Comments Off on 8 December 1861: “Evey Man Woman & Child would sign a petition to that effect. Except the distillers.”