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Chapter 2: Charleston Harbor.
Conspiracy was not confined to South Carolina or the Cotton States; unfortunately, it had established itself in the highest official circles of the national administration.
Three members of President Buchanan's c nting fifty-five guns en barbette and holding a garrison of 300 men. The third and most important work was
Map of Charleston Harbor. Fort Sumter, also of brick, but of more imposing size.
It was situated about the middle of the harbor entrance, a doption of the doctrine of non-coercion; the next essential step was to prevent any reinforcements from coming into Charleston Harbor.
Though not perhaps susceptible of historical proof, strong inference warrants the belief that Floyd, Secretary sudden military movement by Major Anderson, transferring his entire garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, on the night of the commissioners' arrival in Washington, December 26.
Daily observation left him no doubt that M