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Basket Case
Comparing market baskets from 1860 and 1863 A newspaper in the Confederate capital compared antebellum prices with 1863 prices and helped quantified the high inflation in Richmond since the war began (the basics in the baskets were at least ten … Continue reading
Licensed to Sell?
Alabama corn price controls From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 29, 1862: Cor[n] law i[n] Alabama. –The Legislature of Alabama has passed a bill requiring that no person, except the producer and miller, shall sell corn without first obtaining a … Continue reading
Christmas Thank-offering
Fredericksburg refugees caught between plundering Yankee army of he North and the spirit of extortion in the Southern Yankee businessmen. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 25, 1862: Appeal for Fredericksburg. The citizens of Fredericksburg have been great sufferers by … Continue reading
Vulture
Vilifying the ‘virtual’ northern president, who’s actions are a stimulant to ‘determined resistance’ From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 5, 1862: The next Yankee President. Of course-Wm. H. Seward has not sold himself to the Devil for nothing. The Presidency … Continue reading
The Union = The Almighty Dollar
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch November 4, 1862: Deifying the Dollar. The Union is only another name with the North for the Dollar. It is the Almighty Dollar which they worship, and the Union is only its [o]utward symbol and … Continue reading
Market Watch
Richmond Newsboys Overcharging; Scarcity at the Produce Markets From the Richmond Daily Dispatch June 11, 1862: Flotation of Newspaper boys. The practice among newsboys of overcharging strangers and residents in the city for the Dispatch having become so common, we … Continue reading
