NP, RS 2/25A/1864

From the Richmond Sentinel
 
February 25, 1864
 
   About 11 o'clock on Friday forenoon, four car loads of cotton, with the cars, were burned at the Northeastern Railroad depot, Charleston, as they were about to leave for Wilmington. The number of bales burnt is from one hundred and fifty, to one hundred and seventy-five, divided as follows: Charleston Importing and Exporting Company, H. Cobia, President, sixty-seven bales; Bee Company, fifty bales; B. Seixas, about thirty-three bales; DeBassett, Brown & Co., eleven bales; W. T. J. O. Woodward, eleven bales. Out of the four cars only twenty bales were saved.

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