Yesterday we began
to narrow down our use of even "Confederate coffee" (half wheat or
rye) to once a day — our sugar is getting so low, and we expect to get
no more till the war is over. Sugar is rarely to be bought, and when a little
is to be had it is $1.00 per lb.!
SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and
Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 145
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