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The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], Butler in North Carolina. (search)
le 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 twenty cents for writing his name. The order is then carried back to the picket stand, and before the owner can get what he wants he must give a buffalo, appointed for the purpose, one dollar to go and get the articles. Frequently the amount of one man's sales will not reach a dollar and sixty cents, and in that case he must go back home and bring something else in order to get his request through the proper channels. I merely mention this in ord