Alexander-Statewide County IL Archives News.....Smuggling Goods To The Rebels May 13, 1864
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Alton Telegraph (Illinois) May 13, 1864
  We learn from a dispatch from Cairo of the 9th inst.that on Saturday night 
last a quantity of goods shipped from the house of ____ Homer, Rex & Tracey, 
according to invoices was seized by Gallatin Wood at Goose Island, seventeen 
miles above Cairo, and their claiments are named; J Starr, and another, name 
unknown, were arrested, charged with smuggling articles contrband of war. Upon 
examination it found that the boxes and packages contained one hundred and five 
revolvers, sixty thousand percussion caps, a large quantity of powder, some 
dress goods, one gray military cloth cap, and an assortment of gray woollen 
goods, used by rebel officers in making uniforms in all over five thosand 
dollars.

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