From the Richmond Enquirer, 5/7/1862, p. 2, c. 7
TOBACCO SEIZED. – Under the authority of the recent general
order for the collection of tobacco into a suitable rendezvous where it could be
burned in an emergency, the Provost Marshal’s forces, on yesterday, waited upon
certain parties opposed to the scheme and accumulated a large quantity of the
weed, which they carried away.
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