. . .amounting almost to famine, in some parts of the South, are no doubt true. A recent number of the Macon, Georgia, Telegraph has the following paragraph:
“Since the Unionists have taken possession of Tennessee, prices of every article of food have risen ever hour. Blue beef has risen from ten to twenty cents in the Macon market; corn is a dollar and forty cents; salted swine’s flesh, of the most miserable description is from thirty-three to forty cents per pound.”
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1
“Since the Unionists have taken possession of Tennessee, prices of every article of food have risen ever hour. Blue beef has risen from ten to twenty cents in the Macon market; corn is a dollar and forty cents; salted swine’s flesh, of the most miserable description is from thirty-three to forty cents per pound.”
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1
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