Statistics for occurrence #1 of “South Carolina” in article pos=20 of The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1861., [Electronic resource]:
...stations of "Old Abe" and his Black Republican cohorts, if they will locate themselves near the Petersburg depot.
Almost every freight train South carries bomb-shells and other munitions of war for South Carolina and other Gulf States.
If any contest should take place, the attacking party may look out for "squalls" of a peculiarly distressing and fatal character.
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