[644] Jacobs, pp. 4-6, 12-14, 16-21; Porcher, p. 65.
[645] Hague, “Blockaded Family.”
[646] Jacobs, “Drug Conditions,” pp. 4-6, 12-14, 16-21; Hague, “Blockaded Family,” passim; “Our Women in the War”; Ball, “Clarke County”; Miller, “Alabama”; Porcher; Pub. So. Hist. Ass’n, March, 1903.
[647] Smedes, “A Southern Planter,” p. 226.
[648] In the early part of the war when a soldier received a slight wound he was given a furlough for a few weeks until he was well again. Slight wounds came to be called “furloughs,” and some soldiers when particularly homesick are said to have exposed themselves unnecessarily in order to get a “furlough.”
[649] See Boston Journal, Sept. 29 and Nov. 15, 1864.
[650] See Mrs. Clayton’s “White and Black” in regard to rations for negroes.
[651] See Acts of Ala., Nov. 28 and 30, 1861, Dec. 9, 1862, and Dec. 8, 1863; Transactions Ala. Hist. Soc., Vol. IV, pp. 219 et seq.
[652] It was estimated that one-fourth of the people of the state were furnished for three years with meal and salt.
[653] Moore, “Rebellion Record,” Vol. IV (1862).