| From the Raleigh Confederate |
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| February 3, 1864 |
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| Large Arrival of Coffee |
| A train of eighteen cars loaded with
government coffee, says the Petersburg Express, of Saturday, arrived
in town yesterday, after noon from the South. This coffee, we learn,
reached the country through the blockade at some Southern port, and is
now be transported to this State for the benefit of our noble army.
There were in all, about twelve hundred sacks, which will no doubt be
greeted with enthusiasm by the army. {If the
cars were fully loaded by weight, each bag would weigh 240 pounds --
very unlikely. It is probable that the cars were full by volume, not
weight. If the bags weighed 100 pounds each, this would be a shipment
of 120,000 pounds of coffee at a time when Lee's army was about 50,000
strong.} |
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