The weather continues quite pleasant. There is no news. All
is quiet here. There has been no foraging for two months now, for the reason
that there is nothing left to forage. I often wonder what the farmers in this
section live on; whatever they have certainly cannot be in abundance. The
citizens of Vicksburg are a little more fortunate; that is, if they have the
greenbacks, for since July 4th, last. Confederate scrip is no longer legal
tender. Some people still have a little gold and silver, which comes from its
hiding place when their larders run low.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 158
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