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The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of First Maryland regiment. (search)
on the men suffered for warm clothing, which being made known through the Richmond Enquirer, large and liberal contributions were at once sent on from Virginia and the South. Over $20,000 worth of supplies of clothes and money was thus collected in a few weeks. Richmond was foremost in the work. Virginia, ever liberal, exceeded herself, and the whole South lavished generosity. Wherever there was a group of Maryland people they took pride in supplying their kindred in the field. Colonel George Schley and Dr. Steiner, of Augusta, Ga., sent Colonel Johnson $1,100 from themselves and other Marylanders. A gentleman of New Orleans, born in Prince George's, sent General Johnson $1,000. Hundreds of the sons of the old land, scattered through the Confederacy, sent their contributions until at last it was necessary to decline any further additions to the treasury. The clothing and blankets thus collected supplied the regiment to some extent during the remainder of the time it was in ser
The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Destruction of a factory. Augusta, Feb. 25.--George Schley's new and extensive cotton and woolen factory, situated about seven miles from this city, was destroyed by five last night. A heavy loss has been sustained, and about 200 persons are thrown out of employment, This is the second time within the past two years that Solely's factory has been destroyed by fire. [The large cotton factories i Columbus and Augusta, Ga., are suspended in consequence of the recent freshet injuring the canals which supplied their motive power, and the loss of another by fire adds to the general calamity.--Rup's.]