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Buchanan (search for this): chapter 4
Chapter 3: The Confederate States Commissioners. their correspondence with Mr. Seward.-how they were deceived. Mr. Lincoln's sectional views. letter of Major Anderson to the Adjutant-General of the United States army. on whom must rest the responsibility for the War. Mr. Buchanan's wavering policy. General Beauregard distrusts the good faith of the federal authorities. his plan to reduce Fort Sumter. detached batteries. floating and iron-clad batteries. Fort Sumter's supplies cut off. Drummond lights. steam harbor-boats. enfilade or masked battery. Mr. Chew. his message to General Beauregard. Secretary of War apprised of same. his answer to telegram. Blakely rifled gun. by whom sent. General Beauregard demands the surrender of Fort Sumter. Major Anderson declines. fire opened on the Fort April 12th.> The Confederate States Commissioners—Messrs. John Forsyth of Alabama, M. J. Crawford of Georgia, and A. B. Roman of Louisiana—with proposals from thei
C. H. Stevens (search for this): chapter 4
position, so as to deliver a destructive fire upon the postern entrance of the fort facing the city, a point which could not be effectively bombarded from any other battery. An iron-clad land battery was also constructed, at that time, by C. H. Stevens, of Charleston, who afterwards became a brigadier-general in the Confederate army, and was killed at the battle of Chickamauga. It consisted of heavy timbers overlaid with railroad iron, so fitted together as to present a smooth inclined surface, to be properly greased when ready for action. Its heavy guns, three in number, were fired through embrasures supplied with strong iron shutters. General Beauregard likewise approved of Mr. Stevens's plan, and added to it such suggestions as his engineering experience justified. This battery was erected at Cummings's Point, only thirteen hundred yards from Fort Sumter. Both Captain Hamilton's and Mr. Steven's batteries proved the wisdom of their inventors, and fully met General Beaur
A. R. Chisolm (search for this): chapter 4
kely rifled gun, the first ever used in America, which had just arrived from England—an unexpected present to the State from Charles K. Prioleau, of Charleston, a partner in the Liverpool branch of the firm of John Frazer & Co. It arrived off the harbor on the day before the order from Montgomery was received, and delayed its execution for twenty-four hours. At two o'clock P. M. April 11th, General Beauregard, through his aids, Captain S. D. Lee, Colonel James Chestnut, Jr., and Lieutenant A. R. Chisolm, made a formal demand for the immediate surrender of Fort Sumter. The terms offered were: to transport Major Anderson and his command to any port in the United States he might select; to allow him to move out of the fort with company arms and property, and all private property; and to salute his flag on lowering it. General Beauregard's Report of the Bombardment of Sumter. General Beauregard's despatch, forwarded on the same day to the Secretary of War, was as follows:
Peter G. T. Beauregard (search for this): chapter 4
or the War. Mr. Buchanan's wavering policy. General Beauregard distrusts the good faith of the federal authoor masked battery. Mr. Chew. his message to General Beauregard. Secretary of War apprised of same. his anselegram. Blakely rifled gun. by whom sent. General Beauregard demands the surrender of Fort Sumter. Major ngton, had notified both Governor Pickens and General Beauregard that the government intended to provision Forptoms of anxiety for his personal safety; but General Beauregard and Governor Pickens gave him at once most poton. The crowd you see around this building, General Beauregard told him, shows the eagerness of the people twas escorted to the railroad depot by aids of General Beauregard and Governor Pickens, and left Charleston unmcted. The explanation of these facts is that General Beauregard, who considered himself justified in making ube reduced by the South Carolina troops under General Beauregard. The following is an extract from Major Ande
Chew (search for this): chapter 4
cut off. Drummond lights. steam harbor-boats. enfilade or masked battery. Mr. Chew. his message to General Beauregard. Secretary of War apprised of same. his mount of provisions on hand; Ibid. p. 134. not until, on the 8th of April, Mr. Chew, from the State Department at Washington, had notified both Governor Pickens awas rumored at the time, and has been repeated since by General Crawford, that Mr. Chew, after delivering his message to the South Carolina authorities, barely escaped from the city of Charleston without molestation. This is an error. Mr. Chew, who was an intelligent man, no doubt felt the very equivocal nature of his mission atd himself justified in making use of every rightful stratagem of war, arrested Mr. Chew's telegrams, and purposely delayed some of the trains that took him back to Waest metal there. Immediately after the delivery of Mr. Lincoln's message by Mr. Chew, General Beauregard sent the following despatch to the Secretary of War, at Mo
G. V. Fox (search for this): chapter 4
e idea. General Doubleday's Reminiscences of Sumter and Moultrie, p. 133. Not until Captain G. V. Fox, of the United States Navy, had obtained introduction into Sumter, under the plea of pacif is, of course, now too late for me to give any advice in reference to the proposed scheme of Captain Fox. I fear that its result cannot fail to be disastrous to all concerned. Even with his boat at our walls, the loss of life (as I think I mentioned to Mr. Fox) in unloading her will more than pay for the good to be accomplished by the expedition, which keeps us, if I can maintain possession oon was to come. Colonel Lamon's remark convinced me that the idea, merely hinted at to me by Captain Fox, would not be carried out. We shall strive to do our duty, though I frankly say that my hell opposition. Roman, Crawford, Forsyth. The correspondence between General Scott and Captain Fox, the communication of Secretary Cameron to the latter, the letters of President Lincoln to th
Montgomery (search for this): chapter 4
een most zealously and effectively assisted by the South Carolina authorities and the officers and men under him. One thing only remained to be attended to, and that was the placing in position of a small Blakely rifled gun, the first ever used in America, which had just arrived from England—an unexpected present to the State from Charles K. Prioleau, of Charleston, a partner in the Liverpool branch of the firm of John Frazer & Co. It arrived off the harbor on the day before the order from Montgomery was received, and delayed its execution for twenty-four hours. At two o'clock P. M. April 11th, General Beauregard, through his aids, Captain S. D. Lee, Colonel James Chestnut, Jr., and Lieutenant A. R. Chisolm, made a formal demand for the immediate surrender of Fort Sumter. The terms offered were: to transport Major Anderson and his command to any port in the United States he might select; to allow him to move out of the fort with company arms and property, and all private property;
L. Thomas (search for this): chapter 4
t General Beauregard, who considered himself justified in making use of every rightful stratagem of war, arrested Mr. Chew's telegrams, and purposely delayed some of the trains that took him back to Washington. Major Anderson's letter to Colonel L. Thomas, AdjutantGen-eral United States Army, dated April 8th, 1861, and the telegrams from Messrs. Crawford, Roman, and Forsyth, from Washington, establish the fact that the object of the Federal government in delaying its final answer to the Sout South Carolina troops under General Beauregard. The following is an extract from Major Anderson's letter. It explains itself, and clears him from all participation in that act of duplicity: Fort Sumter, S. C., April 8th, 1861. To Colonel L. Thomas, etc.: Colonel,—* * * * * * * I had the honor to receive by yesterday's mail the letter of the Honorable Secretary of War, dated April 4th, and confess that what he here states surprises me very greatly, following, as it does, and contr
Lewis R. Gibbes (search for this): chapter 4
d to use two large Drummond lights, one on Morris Island, the other on Sullivan's Island, at points specially selected, in order to illuminate the channels leading to Fort Sumter, and thereby facilitate the firing of the Morris Island beach batteries and other works bearing on the outer harbor. He had ordered and received these valuable lights from New York, and having placed them in bombproofs, so constructed as to insure their usefulness and safety, intrusted them to the care of Professor Lewis R. Gibbes, of the Charleston College. In connection with these two Drummond lights, and as an additional safeguard, Captain Hartstein, a distinguished ex-officer of the United States navy, was placed in command of the steam harbor boats, and detailed to watch the various channel entrances, with orders, should he discover vessels attempting to approach Fort Sumter, to throw up signal rockets, as a warning to the batteries and the Drummond lights, and then to steam slowly in, after hoisting
L. P. Walker (search for this): chapter 4
Beauregard sent the following despatch to the Secretary of War, at Montgomery: Charleston, April 8th, 1861. To L. P. Walker: Dear Sir,--An authorized messenger from Mr. Lincoln has just informed Governor Pickens and myself that provisionsl at once demand its evacuation; and if this is refused, proceed in such a manner as you may determine to reduce it. L. P. Walker. General Beauregard was ready. He had displayed untiring energy in his preparations, and had been most zealou despatch, forwarded on the same day to the Secretary of War, was as follows: Charleston, April 11th, 1861. To L. P. Walker: Major Anderson replied: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication, demanding the evacuatiblood. If this, or its equivalent, be refused, reduce the fort as your judgment decides to be the most practicable. L. P. Walker. The substance of these instructions was immediately forwarded to the fort, by General Beauregard's aids, acco
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