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I reside in the County of Elizabeth City, State of Virginia, and about five miles from Fortress Monroe. I sold wood to the Government in the years 1863, 1864, and 1865, at the rate of five dollars per cord, mostly pine wood. The market price of wood now is five dollars per cord for pine wood, of oak wood, from 50 cents to one dollar more. The market price of wood on the stump is not less than two dollars and fifty cents per cord for oak wood. Common sap pine is worth on the stump at least two dollars. When very convenient to market it is worth more as carting is saved. I should say that the wood on Mr. Joseph Segar's farm, Roseland, from its nearness to the Old Point and Hampton markets, and to the freedmen settlements, and from its good quality, being oak and hard pine, would be worth today, if standing, fully three dollars per cord on the stump, if not more. If now standing, I would give that price for it. The wood on his land is now all gone.

C.M. Hickman

Elizabeth City County, To wit:
This day Charles W.