Letter, 1854 Jan. 18, U.S. Arsenal, Charleston, S.C., to Col. H[enry] K[nox] Craig, Chief of Ordinance, Washington, [D.C.].

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Letter, 1854 Jan. 18, U.S. Arsenal, Charleston, S.C., to Col. H[enry] K[nox] Craig, Chief of Ordinance, Washington, [D.C.].

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Letter written from the U.S. Arsenal in Charleston re local health conditions, an epidemic of disease, and the need to relocate gunpowder stored at sites that were used as pesthouses or quarantine hospitals. Reporting that on the previous night the mayor of Charleston, S.C., had received authority to convert Castle Pinckney in the harbor, into a "City-Lazaretto," explaining the use of this property to store "nearly all the powder deposited here" with a garrison "detailed weekly... from Fort Moultrie," although such an arrangement could not be maintained "when the place has become a depot for the pestilence now prevailing in this city... by the blacks, who... are alone to constitute the occupants." Kingsbury also requests that the order be delayed until all property under his responsibility could be removed, with endorsement, dated 21 Jan. 1854, "'The powder will be removed with reasonable dispatch.' signed by Jefferson Davis, Sec[retary] of War, War Dept."

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