[468] Ball, “Clarke County,” pp. 294, 295; Miller, p. 230; oral accounts.
[469] N. Y. Times, April 5, 1864 (from Mobile papers).
[470] N. Y. Times, Sept. 6, 1864.
[471] Smedes, “A Southern Planter,” p. 226.
[472] Hague, “Blockaded Family,” passim; “Our Women in the War,” passim; Jacobs, “Drug Conditions.”
[473] Ball, “Clarke County,” p. 501.
[474] Miller, p. 232. A negro went to a conscript camp in 1864 with a fifty-cent jug of whiskey. He gave his master a bottleful from the jug, replacing what he had taken out by water. The resulting mixture he sold for $5 a drink, a drink being a cap-box full. Each drink poured out of the jug was replaced by the same measure of water. In this way he made $300 before the mixture was so diluted that the thirsty soldiers would not buy. Related by the negro’s master.
[475] O. R., Ser. IV, Vol. III, p. 686.
[476] Montgomery Daily Advertiser, April 18, 1865. But for another month state money circulated in Montgomery.
[477] See Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. VI, p. 14.