Lieut. Col. Childs, of the 3d Regiment U.
S. Artillery, sailed on the Alabama yesterday evening for the Bay of
Aransas, to take command of the Battalion of that Regiment of which two
companies sailed from Charleston, S. C., on the 4th inst. in
the Cincinnati.
Source: The Daily Picayune,
September 11, 1845, p. 2, col. 1.
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