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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