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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 12: the inauguration of President Lincoln, and the Ideas and policy of the Government. (search)
of the Administration, as measured and interpreted in connection with these promises, is the proximate cause of the great calamity. I have a profound conviction that the telegrams of the 8th of April, of General Beauregard, and of the 10th of April, of General Walker, the Secretary of War, can be referred to nothing else than their belief that there has been systematic duplicity practiced on them, through me. The following are the telegraphic dispatches alluded to:-- Charleston, April 8, 1861. To L. P. Walker, Secretary of War:-- An authorized message from President Lincoln just informed Governor Pickens and myself that provisions will be sent to Fort Sumter peaceably, or otherwise by force. G. T. Beauregard. Montgomery, April 10, 1861. General G. T. Beauregard:-- If you have no doubt as to the authorized character of the agent who communicated to you the instructions of the Washington Government to supply Fort Sumter by force, you will at once demand its evacuat