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Posted By: Keith Piontek
Date: Wednesday, 27 February 2008, at 1:06 p.m.
I just discovered this resource recently. It has been a real hoot to read through these old newspapers. Thought I would share, in case you were unaware.
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never ceases to entertain me. I found a TX newspaper that lists the men in Smith County (location of Camp Ford prison)who were exempted for serving in the Civil War, and their profession that exempted them. Also included was a price list they were to sell their goods and produce for.
My question is, did every county and state have such a list?

TYLER REPORTER, November 10, 1864, p. 4, c. 1-2

A List of Exempt and Detailed Conscripts,
of Smith County.
(I didn't list all names, see the link at bottom for those names if interested)

Schedule of Prices.

Wheat, per bushel, $5.00; Corn, per bushel, $2.50; Barley, Oats and Rye, per bushel, 2.50; Peas, per bushel 3.00; Beans, 5.00; Bacon, per lb., 75c; Pork, 30c; Pork mess, 75c; Hogs, gross, 22c; Lard, 75c; 4 yrs old beef cattle, 60.00; Beef per lb., 15c; Mutton per head, 10.00; Mutton per lb., 20c; Tallow, 50c; Potatoes, 2.00; Vinegar per gal., 4.00; Fodder per hundred, 1.50; Hay, 2,50; Marino wool, unwashed, 2.00; American wool unwashed, 1.20; Mexican wool, 60c; Cotton, 25c; Artillery horses No. 1, 800.00; No. 2, 750.00; Mules, No. 1, 700.00; Mules, No. 2, 650.00; Salt, estimated at 50 lbs per bus., $5.00; Corn meal, 3.00; Flour, 17.50; common sole leather, 1.25; Best sole leather, 1.75; Good russet upper leather, 2.00; Light russet upper leather, 2.50; Good harness leather, heavy, 1.50; Good harness leather, light, 2.00; Kip and calf, black per side, 20.00; Hides good, and dry, per lb., 50c.

Condition and Obligations of the Detail.

Farmers will sell the marketable surplus of provisions and grain, now on hand, and which they may raise from year to year, while the exemption continues, to the government and to the families of soldiers, at prices not exceeding those fixed by the Commissioners of the State under the Impressment Act.

Manufacturers of Salt, are required to sell the Salt manufactured by them, at prices not exceeding those fixed by the Commissioners of the State under the Impressment Act.

Physicians during the continuance of their details will not charge the families of officers and soldiers absent in the army, more than the customary rates before the war in said locality, and if their charges to others are extortionate, their details will be revoked.

Detailed Millers will not charge, or take more than one eight [sic] as toll, for grain ground on their mills, and will sell all the surplus of the toll received at their mills, (over a support for their families,) to the Government, soldiers' families, and indigent persons, at the prices fixed by the Commissioners of the State under the Impressment Act; and the owners of Saw Mills, will sell their lumber at $2.00 per hundred feet.

Black Smiths will not charge more than at the rate of seven dollars per day for their labor, where the material is furnished them, and where the party detailed furnishes the material, the actual cost of the same, shall be added to the price of the same per day.

Detailed Tanners will sell all of the leather manufactured at their yards, (over a support for their families) to the Government, soldiers' families, and indigent persons, at prices not exceeding those fixed by the Commissioners of the State, under the Impressment Act.

Detailed Shoemakers during their details will not charge more than at the rate of seven dollars per day for their labor, where the material is furnished them and where the party detailed furnishes the material the actual cost of the same shall be added to the price of their labor per day.

Detailed Wagon makers will not sell their labor at more than seven dollars per day where the material is furnished them, and where the party detailed furnishes the material, the actual cost of the same shall be added to the price of their labor per day.

Note. Any evasion of this order, either by refusal to perform work, or to sell for Confederate money, or by obtaining provisions in exchange for work, or articles manufactured, or received by way of toll, at prices below their customary market value in the neighborhood, or by exchanging work or article manufactured or received for toll for provisions, or supplies for re-sail [sic], will be punished by prompt revocation of the detail.

All persons knowing of any violation of the above orders, are requested to report the facts.

Thos. A. Flewellen,

En. Officer, for Smith Co.

Tyler (TX) Reporter, 1861-1864

Fran Bolton