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HANCOCK COUNTY OFFERS TO H
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GUNBOAT DESIGN cc BUILDING KILL, MATERIAL & LABOR
July - 1861
Source:	N.	0.	"Daily	Picayune"	-	Thurs.	Aug.	1,	1861
Editors Picayune:?
Capt. Poitevent, of Gainesville in this county, veil known in your city as an enterprising steamboatman, of ample means, has made a model for a gunboat, now on its way to Richmond and Jackson?an admirably contrived design for Coast Defense.
We are prepared at Gainesville and Pearlington to build as many of these boats as may be called for.
We have the timber, the mills, the boat yards, docks and ship carnenters, all on hand.
It may not be generally known at both those places on Pearl River we are constantly building steamboats and schooners, of the best live oak, cypress, yellow pine, white oak and cedar.
Let the Confederate authorities or the Executives of Mississippi and Louisiana say the word, and- by or before the 1st of January Pearlington and Gainesville will fit out and complete any number of gunboats that may be needed.
This County, though sparsely populated, has done nobly.
We have two finely drilled Companies at Bay St. Louis, two more are being organized, and a number of our citizens are now in Virginia,-, members of other organizations.
HANCOCK COUNTY