Record Data
Source citation
"Federal Troops in the South," Charleston (SC) Mercury, November 20, 1860, p. 1: 2.
Newspaper: Publication
Charleston Mercury
Newspaper: Headline
Federal Troops in the South
Newspaper: Page(s)
1
Newspaper: Column
2
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
FEDERAL TROOPS IN THE SOUTH. – We append what is said to be a correct list of the Federal troops at present stationed in the Southern States: At Fort Monroe, Va., 8 companies of artillery; at Fayetteville Arsenal, N. C., 1 company of artillery; at Fort Moultrie, S. C., 2 companies of artillery; at Augusta, Ga., 1 company of artillery; at Key West, Fla., 1 company of artillery; at Barrancas Barracks, near Pensacola, Fla., 1 company of artillery; at Baton Rouge, La., 1 company of artillery – total, about 800 men. There are about 120 United States marines at Norfolk and Pensacola. The recruiting stations of Jefferson, Mo., and Louisville, have no full company garrisoning them just now.
