The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], December 8, 1860
The Hartford Times, of the 19th ult., says the steamer City of Hartford takes, this afternoon, as freight, one hundred and eighty cases of Sharpe’s patent carbines, containing ten pieces each, amounting to arms for one thousand eight hundred men, and forty cases of conical balls, containing each one thousand bullets. These are ordered by the State of Georgia, to be delivered at Savannah, and are only the first shipment of an extensive order.