...e Secretary of War, at Montgomery, giving as his words:--I will await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we will be starved out in a few days. Walker telegraphed back, that if Major Anderson would state the time when he would evacuate, and agree that, meanwhile, he would not use his guns against them, unless theirs should be employed against Fort Sumter, Beauregard was authorized thus to...