...n, and others that were actually prepared to follow, cried no coercion or, neutrality as the price of remaining in the Union. At Cummings Point, the nearest land to Fort Sumter at the entrance to Charleston harbor , a battery had been erected during February and March, for the avowed purpose of reducing that work. When the attack was made, or rather after Fort Sumter had fallen, on the 13th of April, 1861, th...