| From the Richmond Examiner |
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| April 26, 1861 |
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| City Intelligence |
| The South Carolina Troops |
| The Superintendent of the
Richmond & Petersburg Railroad dispatched an extra train to Petersburg
on yesterday to convey a detachment of the Southern Confederacy troops,
which left Charleston on the previous day, and left Weldon for Richmond
yesterday morning at fifteen minutes to nine o'clock. The detachment
consists of four hundred and fifty men, under command of Gen. M. L.
Bonham. |
| The Arrival |
| The long anticipated
detachment arrived at half past five last evening, in an extra train, by
the Richmond & Petersburg Railroad. The entire corps numbered four
hundred and fifty men, but thirty remained in Petersburg to take charge
of the baggage, and came over in the regular train at half past six
o'clock. They were greeted at the depot by between two and three
thousand citizens, who literally blocked up the sidewalks. Shouts
innumerable went up as company after company leaped from the cars,
waving their company flags and shouldering their rifles. ***** |
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