NP, TD 3/19/1861

From the New Orleans True Delta
 
March 19, 1861
 
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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