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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--$20 reward (search)
Petersburg2,283 Total11,818 Total population and value of real estate and personal property, arranged by districts: whitesfree negroes.Slares. Tidewater215,53432,841179,502 Piedmont231,77816,044248,849 Valley176,1535,84137,204 Southwest168,8811,48619,025 Northwest255,2011,0276,448 1,647,54757,239491,028 Real and personal Estate. real Estate.personal Estate Tidewater$88,300,769$14,949,392 Piedmont135,545,849223,073,184 Valley92,942,07263,160,810 Southwest51,910,83037,093,506 Northwest69,052,17032,232,724 $437,751,689$496,509,616 Aggregate number of white, free and slave population in the districts: TidewatTidewater427,877 Piedmont496,672 Valley219,198 Southwest189,392 Northwest262,676 1,595,814 the following shows the total number of whites, free negroes, and slaves in the towns and cities named, included in the foregoing: Whites.Free.Slaves.Total. Fredericksburg9,8164221,2915,028 Norfolk City10,1571,0284,53215,717 P
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], Southern War News. (search)
m$1,326 Transporting and grinding2,000 cost of making9,860 cost of vats, at $35 each136,500 Total expense$149, 186 fifteen hundred bushels per day is 468,000 bushels per year, sold at 75 cents$351,000 Deduct cost as above149, 186 profit$201,814 if sold at 40 cents per bushel, gross receipts would be$187,200 Deduct whole cost12,686 profit$174,514 the majority report recommends the purchase of 400,000 bushels of salt at 75 cents per bushel β€” costing the State $300,000. We have at least 1,333,000 persons to supply with salt. 400,000 bushels gives, per capita, 15 pounds to each person. If We are to depend upon the amount made by boiling β€” say, 700,000 bushels β€” each person would receive 26 ΒΌ pounds; just one-half enough. Piedmont District has a population of 496,671 Valley District219,120 Southwest189,392 Tidewater427,877 1,333,129 At 50 pounds per capita, 400,000 bushels would not supply Piedmont alone, if they got the whole amo
The Daily Dispatch: September 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mutual Press Association. (search)
e beast of burden, like the donkey or the camel, and trotting races have been substituted for the genuine sports of the turf. We have not been slow to imitate, and the consequence has been that blood horses have become a rarity throughout the South. In the days of the old revolution, horses of high blood were much more common than they have ever been since. Everybody seems to have owned a blooded horse. When Cornwallis passed through those portions of the State that lie between the Tidewater region and the county of Albemarle, Tarlton and Simcoe (especially the former) swept the stables and pastures. So successful was Tarlton, especially in his several raids upon the farmers and planters, that a contemporary writer says his whole command was mounted upon race horses. Of these, no doubt, he imported many from England, but many more he got from the stables of Virginia gentlemen. The steed upon which he himself was mounted was the most famous racer of the day. He was called "B
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