hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Document | Max. Freq | Min. Freq | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. | 5 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 5 | 1 | Browse | Search |
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
View all matching documents... |
Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for Thomas M. Anderson or search for Thomas M. Anderson in all documents.
Your search returned 3 results in 2 document sections:
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Moultrie , Fort, seizure of (search)
Moultrie, Fort, seizure of
Major Anderson abandoned weaker Fort Moultrie, and went to stronger Fort Sumter, on the evening of Dec. 26, 1860.
He left officers and men to spike the guns, burn the carriages, and cut down the flag-staff, that no other banner might occupy the place of the national flag.
The bewildered citizens of Charleston saw the smoke of the burning carriages at dawn, and when they knew its origin, the disunionists were greatly exasperated.
The Secession convention requested Governor Pickens to take possession of the government property in and around Charleston.
The arsenal, into which Floyd had crowded arms, was seized in the name of the State of South Carolina, and thus 70,000 stand of arms and a vast amount of stores, valued at $500,000, were placed in the hands of the enemies of the government.
Men of Charleston, equipped with these weapons, went in two armed steam-vessels and seized Castle Pinckney (which was surrendered by its commander, N. L. Coste), and