The commissioners, appointed for the purpose, have agreed
upon the following schedule of prices for the State of Virginia, under the
recent impressment act of Congress; and if a large amount of supplies be
furnished at these prices — which are fifty, sometimes one hundred per cent,
lower than the rates private individuals are paying — it will be good proof
that all patriotism is not yet extinct:
“Wheat, white, per bushel of 60 pounds, $4 50; flour,
superfine, per barrel of 196 pounds, $22.50; corn, white, per bushel of 56
pounds, $4; unshelled corn, white, per bushel of 56 pounds, $3.95; corn-meal,
per bushel of 50 pounds, $4.20; rye, per bushel of 56 pounds, $3.20; cleaned
oats, per bushel of 32 pounds, $2; wheatbran, per bushel of 17 pounds, 50
cents; shorts, per bushel of 22 pounds, 70 cents; brown stuff, per bushel of 28
pounds, 90 cents; ship stuff, per bushel of 37 pounds, $1.40; bacon, hoground,
per pound, $1; salt pork, per pound, $1; lard, per pound, $1; horses, first
class, artillery, etc., average price per head, $350; wool, per pound, $3;
peas, per bushel of 60 pounds, $4; beans, per bushel of 69 pounds, $4; potatoes,
Irish, per bushel of 69 pounds, $4; potatoes, sweet, per bushel of 69 pounds,
$5; onions, per bushel of 60 pounds, $5; dried peaches, peeled, per bushel of 38
pounds, $8; dried peaches, unpeeled, per bushel of 38 pounds, $4.50; dried
apples, peeled, per bushel of 28 pounds, $3.”
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 337
