[chajin]

In the “Hotel Life in Richmond” on page 8, the prices seem exhorbitant for the mid-19th century. Is this because the Confederate dollars are losing value, or because the gourmet food supplies are very meager?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Is this because the Confederate dollars are losing value . . . .?

That. John Beauchamp Jones and other diarists comment frequently on how expensive everything has become in the Confederate dollars.