From the Richmond Dispatch, 12/21/1861, p. 2, c. 2

Serviceable Ordnance. – A beautiful 12-pound howitzer, cast at the foundry of J. R. Anderson & Co., in this city, has been deposited at the Central depot for transportation to the command of Lieutenant Colonel Turner Ashby. It will doubtless be skillfully used in shelling out compliments to the Yankees across the Potomac.

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