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The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], Another Exploit of Mosby. (search)
the Confederate States bakery, on Clay street, between 1st and Foushee, on Sunday afternoon last, destroyed about seven hundred barrels of hard bread, ready packed, and the whole loss, including that of the building burnt, will probably not exceed $60,000. The property formerly belonged to Mr. Adolph Dill, of this city; but about two years ago was purchased by the Confederate Government, since which time many improvements in the buildings have been made, and, under the superintendence of Peter Tinsley. Esq., of this city, it has been the principal establishment from which the armies of the Confederacy have drawn their supplies of bread. In the basement of the building destroyed were a number of bread-cutting machines, which were slightly damaged by large quantities of rubbish and water falling on them. During the early stage of the fire Mr. A Dill, Jr., a young man employed in the bakery, who had been on the roof of the burning building trying to subdue the flames, finding his posi