1862 January 9 [Staunton, Va.]

[from the diary of Joseph Addison Waddell, civilian clerk in the Quartermaster Dept., Staunton, Va.]

During the year just past I kept an
account of my cash expenditures. The a-
mount was $ 874.13. Of this sum, $ 139.30
[word lined out] are cost of the new office which I built dur-
ing the year – leaving $ 734.83 as costs of
living etc. Part of the above, [-] $ 129.45, was
expended by Va. I purchased tobacco dur-
ing the year, amounting to $ 3.81. Am sur-
prised to find how little I contributed to
religious and benevolent objects. I should add
to the above $ 20 loaned to Lyle in the summer.
No news to-day. The Northern papers are a-
gain publishing reports of widespread disaffec-
tion in the South – multitudes anxious to return
to the Union, and waiting opportunitys – great
suffering at Richmond – Not one word true –
With such stories the feelings of their people
are inflamed and kept up to a war heat. The
rumor of our occupation of Romney is not con-
firmed. Moses [?] made a second payment to-
day on the lot.

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