From the June 15, 2014, Kinston.com (NC) "Struggle, innovation typified Civil War homefront" by Wes Wolfe.
They made coffee from okra seed They ate dried green beans in December that had been dried months earlier.
Food was often a problem as the Confederate government was taking 10% of the land's production and passing soldiers often just helped themselves to anything they could get their hands on, especially when they were those of the Union.This Saturday, the Tarheel Civilians living history group was at the CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center in Kinston.
Said one member, "Many (civilians) couldn't pay in script, money, so the Confederate government had a tax-in-kind. If you produced 100 bushels, they took 10."
The Tax Man, then as now, was well-liked. Some Tax Men were in that position to avoid front-line service. Others had been soldiers, but disabled. One had been an officer, wounded and discharged.. He served the rest of the war as a revenue agent and became the county's tax assessor after the war.
Hardships Aplenty --Old Secesh
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