The generals in North Carolina are importunate for
reinforcements. They represent the enemy as in great force, and that Weldon,
Goldsborough, Raleigh, and Wilmington are in extreme peril. Lee cannot send
any, or, if he does, Richmond will be threatened again, and possibly taken.
How shall we live? Boarding ranges from $60 to $100 per
month. Our landlord says he will try to get boarding in the country, and if he
succeeds, probably we may keep the house we now occupy, furnished, at a rent of
$1200, for a mere robin's nest of four rooms! But 1 hope to get the house at
the corner of First and Casey, in conjunction with Gen. Rains, for $1800. It
has a dozen rooms.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 237
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