Adams & Reynolds sell eight bales of cotton to C. Wise — $310.50 net. The brand on the bales is J.A.B., the same mark that has been on every bale since 1847. This is the last cotton sale in the estate's war-era record. The plantation had sold 92 bales in 1858, 73 in 1859, 61 in 1860, 14 in 1861. It sells 8 in 1862, and after April 25 the cotton entries stop. What follows are peanuts and corn and ground peas and lard — the plantation's output measured in different units, sold through different buyers, at the prices a war economy sets.

Five food crop transactions across the fall and winter. McCallie & Jones in Macon: 116 bushels peanuts for $175.12, November 27; 97 bushels ground peas for $133.37, December 16 — signed for by Abner Bryan on the estate's behalf. Dunn & Burdick: 125 bushels ground peas for $188.65, then 13 bushels peas for $18.70, then 19 bushels for $26.95 across December and January. James W. Knott: 70½ bushels pinders for $105.07, December 23.

March 15, 1863: one thousand bushels of corn delivered directly to the Confederate government at $1.25 a bushel — $1,250 in a single transaction. The plantation that ran on cotton for thirty years sold food to the Confederate government in the thirty-first year. The ledger records the shift the same way it recorded everything else — date, commodity, amount, next entry.

B.G. Morris receives $100 for four bushels of salt — $25 per bushel. Before the war, salt was a routine line item — a few dollars for a substantial quantity at the same suppliers who sent bacon, rope, and bagging. By November 1862 four bushels cost $100, recorded without remark between a tax payment and a fabric purchase. Six weeks later, J.W. Fears & Co. supplies 342 lbs more salt for $188.10 — two large purchases in six weeks. In December, 700 lbs of pork are purchased for curing. The salt and the pork arrive in the same season. The smokehouse needs what it needs regardless of what it costs.

J.W.H. Murfee receives $30 for making thirty pairs of shoes — $1.00 per pair. In every prior year the plantation's annual shoe distribution came from Macon suppliers: Strong & Wood, Hopson Swift & Co., Joseph Drake & Son — purchased, shipped, distributed in October or November. In 1862 the shoes are made locally. The same number of people receive footwear. The supply line has changed. The leather purchased from Greer & Lake in December 1861 may be the raw material; Murfee is the craftsman. Thirty pairs, $30, the work done close to the plantation rather than ordered from the city.

Ben Stripling delivers two lumber orders in March: scantling, rafters, plank, weatherboards, roughedge boards — $30.28 total. An iron purchase follows in September: 360 lbs at 6 cents and 242 lbs at 3 cents from Carhart & Curd, $28.86. The lumber and the iron together point at a structure built on the property in the first year of the war. The receipts name the materials and the amounts. They do not name the structure.

The ledger: A.C. Bryan cash going to war — $7.50. Abner Bryan is twenty-six years old. The entry sits between a receipt for four empty barrels at $5 each and a fabric purchase from Asher Ayres. The estate had sold one thousand bushels of corn to the Confederate government the previous month for $1,250. It handed Abner $7.50. The ledger moved to the next line.