Savannah Republican
Georgia
May 20, 1861
The following articles have been officially declared as coming under the head of “contraband of war” by the Federal Administration:
Gold and silver coin, checks or bills of exchange for money, articles of food, clothing, and materials for the manufacture of clothing; rifle pistol, musket and cannon balls and shells; gunpowder, and all materials used in its manufacture, ammunition and munitions and implements of war of every description, books of military education; saddles, harness and trappings, for flying artillery, field and staff officers and cavalry troops; horses, gun carriages, timber for ship building, all kinds of naval stores, engines, boilers and machinery for boats, locomotive engines and cars for railroads, and goods and commodities which might be useful to the enemy in war.