Major Ruffin, in the Commissary Department, says the army
must go on half rations after the 1st of January next.
It is alleged that certain favorites of the government have a
monopoly of transportation over the railroads, for purposes of speculation and
extortion!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 183
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