Macon Telegraph Newspaper
June 23, 1864
(printed in Macon, Bibb County, GA)
NOTE: It lists names of Crawford County citizens and the supplies they donated to Confederate soldiers in need in June 1864. I transcribed it exactly as it read.
FROM CRAWFORD COUNTY
The following is a list of contributions of raw provisions for the sick and wounded soldiers of Johnston's army, from Crawford county:
Mrs. L. Smith, 1 bag flour, 1 jar butter, 1 bag grits and 1 lot of beets.
Mrs. E. A. Sanders, 1 ham bacon, 1 bag flour, 1 jar butter.
Mrs. G. A. Webb, 1 jar of butter.
Mrs. John Holmes, 1 bag onions.
Mr. Jason Castleberry, 1 bag flour.
Mr. B. Simpson, 1 bag flour.
Mr. W. C. Cleveland, 1 sack peas, 1 sack flour, 1 bunch onions.
A. J. Colbert, 1 jug syrup, 1 ham.
Mrs. E. Smith, 1 bag peas &c.
Jas M. Smith, bag sundries.
J. B. Patterson, 1 sack flour, 1 sack grits, 2 hams.
D. W. Simmons, 1 ham.
Mrs. Nancy Colbert, 1 ham.
S. F. Stroud, 1 sack flour, 1 ham bacon, 1 bottle wine, 1 bottle cordial.
J. S. Blasingame, 1 ham.
J. W. Blasingame, 1 ham.
P. Haskins, 2 hams.
L. F. Hicks, 2 hams, 1 bucket butter.
H. N. Scarborough, 1 jug vinegar.
Robt Hatcher, 4 dozen eggs.
Wm. Hamlin, Pepper and sage.
M. Holliman, 1 dozen eggs.
Jas. W. Stembridge, 1 dozen eggs.
P. Scarborough, 3 dozen eggs.
S. F. Anderson, 1 sack flour, 1 sack grits, 1 ham.
C. H. Walker, 1 sack flour, 1 sack grits, 2 hams.
R. R. Harris, 1 bundle rags.
A. J. Preston, 4 hams, 1 lot collards, 1 lot potatoes.
W. C. McCrary, 10 lbs soap, 1 bundle sage, 1 bundle bandages, 1 bucket butter, 1 lot potatoes, 1 lot peas, 1ham.
J. J. Hilsman, 1 lot potatoes, 1 sack flour, 1 lot potatoes and beets, 1 lot pepper.
W. Rickerson, 1 ham bacon, 1 bottle honey.
L. Parsons, 1 ham bacon, 1 lot onions and potatoes.
J. M. Simmons, 1 sack flour, 1 ham.
A. B. Moran, 1 jug vinegar, 1 ham, 1 sack onions, 1 flour.
Isaac Dennis, 1 lot rags, 1 jug syrup, 1 ham, lot onions.
T. F. Gibson, 5 hams of bacon, 2 sacks of flour.
Wilkins Rickerson, 1 ham.
Thos Raines, 2 sacks of flour.
Mrs. Payne, 1 jug of lard.
Mrs. J. W. Dent, 1 sack Irish Potatoes, 1 onions.
Mrs. L. W. Hicks, 1 jar lard.
Mrs. P. Yarborough, 1 jar butter.
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