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The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
One of those lighters was loaded with coal, and the entire deck of the other was covered with 68-pound shells. The shells were carefully stowed in the lower deck, and numbered about fifteen hundred. On either side of the forward deck were erected seventy-two horse stails, for the use of the animals belonging to the mounted artillery. The hold was full of breadstuffs and ammunition, and the berths in the lower sleeping deck were fitted up with bedding sufficient to accommodate eight hundred men. The monster tanks of the ship, together with fourteen large casks, were filled with water sufficient to last the voyagers at least six weeks. On the table of the cabin were the charts of Charleston harbor, and some points on the Florida coast, which were delivered at the Quartermaster's office on Friday, as noticed in the Express. The Army and Navy officers are making no preparations for a prolonged stay of their steamers, wherever they are to go. The coal taken in for "the