You're kidding, during the invasion of PA in 1863, Rebel troops had to PAY the locals for extra provisions or face punishment! They had to convert their grey backs into green backs and pay the exchange rate to boot!
I think you two agreed.
Now you're just making up stuff. The confederates paid alright, but they paid exclusively in confederate money, which was good as toilet paper and not much more.
Specific officers were assigned to levy requisitions on each town, hamlet, and farm, detailing specific quantities of particular products which were to be taken under penalty of retribution. An enormous amount of material was seized, including foodstuffs, cattle, medicine, clothing, horse furniture and other supplies, No horse were permitted to slip from the quartermaster's grasp, and literally thousands were seized. All goods taken were paid for in Confederate currency. Those refusing to cooperate or concealing goods found their goods seized, in return for a claim receipt against the Confederate goverment. In practical terms there was little difference, as both the money and the receipts were worthless paper in Pennsylvania, and not much more valuable in the Confederacy.--Albert A. Nofi, The Gettysburg Campaign, 1994
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
Lee General Order 72:
"II. The Chiefs of the commissary, quartermaster's, ordinance, and medical departments will make requisitions on the local authorities or inhabitants for the necessary supplies for their respective departments, designating places and times of delivery. All persons complying with such requisitions shall be paid the market price, if they so desire...
III. Should the authorities or inhabitants neglect or refuse to comply with such requisitions, the supplies required will be taken from the nearest inhabitants so refusing, by order and under the direction of the respective chiefs of the department named."
Some choice; turn over what we demand and we'll pay you in worthless currency. Or don't turn over what we want or we'll take it anyway.
They had to convert their grey backs into green backs and pay the exchange rate to boot!
Absolute nonsense.
There were instances of foraging by Confederates, but that’s considered military necessity, well within bounds. I worked with a guy whose father was a Jewish merchant in Russia during the Great War. A German officer bought a mop and bucket at his store, and asked for an inflated receipt! Some things are universal.