| From the New Orleans True Delta |
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| March 19, 1861 |
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| More Heavy Ordnance and Ammunition |
| We hear that Governor Pickens has six
hundred and sixty kegs of powder en route, which as shipped from
Wilmington on Monday morning for this city, having just arrived there
from the north. A bill of lading for twenty-seven hundred other kegs of
powder from the north, per order of Gov. Pickens, was also received at
Wilmington on Monday morning -- making in all thirty-three hundred and
sixty kegs of powder. Two heavy ten-inch mortars from Richmond, ordered
by Gov. Pickens, in addition to those already arrived, were shipped from
Wilmington on Monday morning on the
n{N}ortheastern railroad. Also, four hundred nine-inch shells and
a large amount of shot, etc. |
| Charleston Courier, 14th |
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