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1860s newsprint

April 19, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser

 We learn that a magnificent laurel wreath, bound with palmetto, and having an inscription fastened by ribbons of Confederate colors, was sent last week anonymously to the garrison of Fort Sumter. The writing was as follows: “For Colonel Alfred Rhett and his gallant command, Fort Sumter, April 17, 1863. From daughters of South Carolina.”

 

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