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Shipment of Powder and Shell to Charleston

January 21, 1861, The New York Herald

PETERSBURG, Va., Jan. 19, 1861.

One thousand kegs of powder and twenty thousand pounds of shot and shell from the Tredegar Works, Richmond, left this morning, by special train by the Weldon and Wilmington Railroad, destined to Charleston, to the order of Governor Pickens.

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