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The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], Butler in North Carolina. (search)
Having been engaged in scouting in the lower counties for some time past, I have had frequent opportunities of observing for myself the way in which the citizens of Eastern North Carolina are treated by the Yankee vandals. Near the posts of Plymouth and Washington they have established trading stands, and their trade is carried on in this way: Any citizen can pass the outer post, provided they carry anything to sell; at the next post, half a mile distant, is the trading mart, where their produce is bought by the Yankee soldiers at their own price. They pay a buffalo twenty cents to carry the order to Major E. H. Willis, in Plymouth, a miserable old buffalo, who for many years has been a citizen of the place, and had the esteem and confidence of the people. He, knowing every man in the country, signs the order, if he is a good Union man that sends it, and for this he receives twenty cents also. The order is then carried to Brig Gen. Wessels for approval, who also must have his t