| From the Richmond Sentinel |
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| February 25, 1864 |
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| About 11 o'clock on Friday forenoon, four
car loads of cotton, with the cars, were burned at the Northeastern
Railroad depot, Charleston, as they were about to leave for
Wilmington. The number of bales burnt is from one hundred and fifty,
to one hundred and seventy-five, divided as follows: Charleston
Importing and Exporting Company, H. Cobia, President, sixty-seven
bales; Bee Company, fifty bales; B. Seixas, about thirty-three bales;
DeBassett, Brown & Co., eleven bales; W. T. J. O. Woodward, eleven
bales. Out of the four cars only twenty bales were saved. |
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