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Hardships in Confederate Mississippi

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 30, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 21, No. 5.

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Hardships in Confederate Mississippi

A MERCHANT from the interior of Mississippi describes the people as suffering great hardships. Cotton can be bought for 8c. per pound Confederate money. Large quantities have been burnt along the river banks, and for twenty miles back, from Vicks-burgh downward. Flour at Jackson, Miss., is $40 per. barrel; coffee, $4 per. pound; tea, $17; women's shoes, $15 to $17; men's, $25.