Just been on a shopping expedition for my sister and niece,
and spent $1,500 in about an hour. T gave $110 for ladies' morocco boots; $22
per yard for linen; $5 apiece for spools of cotton; $5 for a paper of pins,
etc. It would be utterly absurd, except that it is melancholy, to see our
currency depreciating so rapidly.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 292
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