I went up to the
Fair Grounds and spent the day there. The attendance was good, there being
about two thousand present.
Business is
becoming quite dull. The war seems to put a stop to all improvements, and there
is no demand for farm produce. Money is getting scarce, gold having been out of
circulation so long that people have forgotten how it looks, and merchants say
that it will not be long until silver goes the same way. For a long time now we
have had wild-cat money, but everybody is afraid to go to sleep with any of it
on hand for fear that it will be worthless in the morning.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 8
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