| From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph |
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| May 1, 1861 |
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| Affairs in Pensacola |
| There are now about eight
thousand men at Pensacola. From a gentleman arrived from that point, I
learn Fort Pickens has been reinforced with a Company of Flying
Artillery, which have been seen on Santa Rosa Island, where the United
States are throwing up batteries rapidly. Three carloads of mortars
went down yesterday. The railroad {the Alabama
& Florida (of Alabama) RR} will be completed, Col. Pollard
informs me, two weeks from last Thursday. It will somewhat depend upon
the action of those who hold Fort Pickens, the particular time at
which Gen. Bragg will proceed to bombard it. We may hear of his attack
upon it at any moment. |
| Montgomery, 20th. |
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