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The Treasury Department secured eleven hundred thousand pounds from the islands occupied by our forces, including Edisto, being the crop, mostly unginned, and gathered in storehouses, when our military occupation began.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various

It was late in the season, and unginned cotton, or cotton from which the seeds had not been removed, was hard to procure.

From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by McCabe, James Dabney

"Wet" cotton, best quality, yields 1 oke of lint from 3 okes of unginned cotton, and "dry" cotton yields about 1 oke of lint from 3⅓ okes of unginned cotton.

From Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products by Bevan, William

There was cotton everywhere—in the fields, unpicked; in the gin-houses, unginned.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by Moore, John Trotwood

At the end of the year they are to receive a bonus of two cents per pound of unginned cotton for picking.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various