Found everything in Main Street twenty per cent dearer. They
say it is due to the new currency bill.
I asked my husband: “Is General Johnston ordered to
reenforce Polk? They said he did not understand the order.” “After five days'
delay,” he replied. “They say Sherman is marching to Mobile.1 When
they once get inside of our armies what is to molest them, unless it be women
with broomsticks?” General Johnston writes that “the Governor of Georgia
refuses him provisions and the use of his roads.” The Governor of Georgia
writes: '”The roads are open to him and in capital condition. I have furnished
him abundantly with provisions from time to time, as he desired them.” I
suppose both of these letters are placed away side by side in our archives.
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1 General Polk, commanding about 24,000 men
scattered throughout Mississippi and Alabama, found it impossible to check the
advance of Sherman at the head of some 40,000, and moved from Meridian south to
protect Mobile. February 16, 1864, Sherman took possession of Meridian.
SOURCE: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 290-1
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