Everybody is in an excitement about the currency bill, which
we heard of last night. Confederate money is refused this morning. On the 1st
of April it is to sink to two thirds its present value; so everybody is trying
to get it off their hands. I have ceased noting the prices of things, they are
so incredible; as, for example, $30 per gallon for sorghum molasses; calico,
$12 per yard; tallow candles, $6 per pound; unbleached cotton, $5 per yard. It
is astonishing how coolly we talk about the probability next summer of having
to relinquish the Valley, and how our plans take in that probability. Oh! but
we are growing weary of this horrid war! How it oppresses us!
SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and
Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 177
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