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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 92 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 49 1 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 20 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sumter, Fort (search)
ings on you anyhow, Bob Anderson, my beau! Bob Anderson, my beau, Bob, I really don't know whether nts reaching the fort. When the wife of Major Anderson (a daughter of Gen. D. L. Clinch) heard ofed, I will go, madam. But, Margaret, said Mrs. Anderson, what do you say? Indade, ma'am, it's Marthe reply. When will you go, Hart? asked Mrs. Anderson. To-night, madam, if you wish. To-morrow more efficient power at the right hand of Major Anderson at that critical moment than a hundred solbed placed in the cars, and accompanied by Major Anderson's brother, the devoted wife started for Neo the President that any attempt to reinforce Anderson must be made before April 15. The Presidensengers to demand the surrender of the fort. Anderson promptly refused, but told the messengers thaes. No time was to be lost, for relief for Anderson was nigh. At midnight the discharge of sevhe fort had been evacuated, not surrendered. Anderson bore away the flag of Sumter, which was used [35 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sumter, the (search)
Sumter, the One of the Confederate cruisers whose depredations led to the make — up of what are popularly known as the Alabama claims against Great Britain. the Sumter was a regularly commissioned war-vessel, which before the Gold box presented to Anderson. beginning of the Civil War was the Havana packet-steamer Marquis de Habana. She was commanded by Capt. Raphael Semmes, had a crew of sixty-five armed men and twenty-five marines, and was heavily armed. Her cruising area was among the West India Islands and along the Spanish coast, and she captured many American merchantmen. At the close of 1861 she was forced to seek shelter under British guns at Gibraltar, where she was watched so closely by the United States steamer Tuscarora that escape was impossible, and early in 1862 she was sold and withdrawn from the Confederate service. See Alabama claims, the; Confederate privateer