Pillow: threatens troop reduction - his own
The war is disrupting the economies of North and South. Here’s a couple Southern examples from the Richmond Daily Dispatch October 29, 1861:
Deserves Emulation.
A free market has been opened in Mobile for those who are not able to purchase their own provisions. Tickets are issued by the members of the ward committees to such persons as apply to them for assistance. About four hundred persons are daily supplied with provisions.
Commendable purpose a Confederate General.
A woman residing in Memphis, whose husband is a volunteer in Gen. Pillow’s command, recently wrote him that she had not received any assistance from the city authorities, and added that she did not know how herself and children could get along. The contents of the letter having reached Gen. Pillow, he addressed a letter to the Memphis press, in which he states that unless the families of the volunteers under him are properly taken care of, he will release all such as have families dependent upon them.
I am assuming the Mobile story is war-related.
Here’s a little political incorrectness for the season from Karen’s Whimsy:
Smoke 'em if you got 'em
