Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Governor Pickens” in entry sumter-fort of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...mter, without being allowed to fire a shot.
Major Anderson keenly felt the firing upon the Star of the West (q. v.). He accepted it as an act of war, and sent a letter, under a flag of truce, to Governor Pickens , as to a belligerent enemy, asking him for an explanation of the outrage.
Pickens replied that it was an act authorized by the State of South Carolina, and that any attempt to reinforce Sumter woul...
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