"my bill of fare-to-wit-water from a spring a mile distant, biscuit and bacon and bacon and biscuit made up with out any lard or soda. For desert
biscuit molasses and water when we are so fortunate as to get molasses at $3.00 a gallon, but we have not been able to get any for 3 or 4 weeks. We have become so fond of the above bill that we have it 3 times a day. We concluded to dispense with (coffee) sugar being $1.00 a lbs."
"Everything is higher and hard to get at that. We paid 60 cents for butter and 55 to 60 cents for frying chickens and everything else in propotion."
" near Rutledge Tenn."
"I regret very much to hear of the soldiers taking you hogs. If some thing is not done we will not have anything to eat next year.
I am in hopes you have seen Col Wycliffe and had a stop put to the hog stealing. If he does not do so I shall report him directly to Gen Dick Taylor. A hog now is worth $500.00."
Ken.