She married a second time to H.B. Donaho. Submitted by Martha Boggs. The country was blockaded everywhere and we could get nothing from outside and we had to depend upon ourselves and grow everything at home. I had plenty of flour because I raised my own wheat, also plenty of corn and meat for the same reason. When the yankee raid passed through this country, I had hid my meat in sink-holes and put my corn for bread in the loft of my house.
Prices are high now, but much higher in the sixties.
We were often hard-pressed for home necessities, such as salt and coffee, and in fact, all did without the latter, using as substitutes okra, rye, barley, wheat, and even bran to make our coffee. The soldiers at the front often went without food or comfortable clothing for months, and yet they fought bravely and well. In Hood's raid into Tennessee the men lived on parched corn, and many went barefooted in the dead of winter.