EXPRESSING CONCERNS OVER GUNPOWDER SUPPLY AND POSSIBLE DELIVERY TO FORT SUMTER, as recorded in an autograph letter, signed, to Col. Edward Manigault in Charleston, S.C.

by Francis W. Pickens

$2,750 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Columbia, SC? : undated summer 1861 . Folio. One-page, in full: To Col. Edward Manigault — Charleston / Of course the powder is not to be sent to Sumter or delivered except through our own officers and upon reasonable estimates -- no powder to be given to unfinished batteries, and magazines to be reported in safe order, but some powder must be immediately sent to batteries at Hilton Head & Bay point -- has any been sent? let them be prepared at any expence -- we must keep for the

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