Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Ladies” in article 23 of The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource]:
...d sent a forty-two pound cannon ball through a target a mile distant.
The shot was fired from one of the guns of the "Bradford Battery." Yesterday morning he fired a forty-two pound shot from the " Ladies ' Battery," which ricocheted within two hundred yards of the opposite shore, a distance of near four miles. Look out, "Mister Ingion."
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