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The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], The intended evacuation of Fort Sumter. (search)
First Lieutenant Engineers, entered service July 1st, 1856, and born in N. York. R. Kidder Meade, Second Lieutenant Engineers, entered service July 1, 1857, and born in Petersburg, Va. Officers9 Band15 Artillerists52 Total76 Besides Paixans, Columbiads, and thirty-two pounder barbette guns, there are muskets without number, seven hundred barrels of gunpowder, and any quantity of shot and shell. These will pass quietly into the possession of the Southern Confederacy. An idea may be obtained of the difficulty the Government would find in reinforcing the forts from the following paragraph: Capt. Ward, of the Navy, called on to give his opinion as to the best method of reinforcements, laid before the Secretary a plan by which two large men-of-war could each engage a land battery, with a certainty, almost, of being destroyed, while a third vessel of lighter draft could run in under Major Anderson's guns. But this was not regarded as certain of success.
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], California. (search)
The appointment of Geo. H. Fitzwilson as deputy for John M. Francisco, (confirmed by the Hustings Court on Monday,) was made in consequence of ill health on the part of the Commissioner of the Revenue for Jefferson Ward. Paralysis during the past winter rendered it difficult for him to walk at times.