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The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
nce the war our population has been doubled; people who once lived in large mansions are glad to get two rooms, the Confederate Government has been compelled to occupy for the uses of State many of our principal public edifices. Artisans and builders having been drawn upon largely for the army, very little building has been going on since the war commenced. The consequence is, that after packing all our spare factories with Yankee prisoners, we have been compelled to encamp the others on Belle Isle, which is the most agreeable of places in summer, but not better in winter than the usual winter quarters of soldiers.--What can we do? Arrangements have been made to send them away as fast as we can find places for them in the interior of the country, and in the meantime they must submit to a disagreeable position with the best philosophy they can, knowing that it is the result of necessity and not of wanton cruelty on our part. We have abstained from referring to the unspeakable ho