...n was allowed to salute, haul down, and carry off this identical flag. Admiral Dahlgren, it seems, had undertaken to "repossess" the fort, and to "restore the old flag" to the flag-staff from which South Carolina tore it at the opening of the war. But the poetic justice of the Admiral's scheme has not saved the scheme itself from collapse; and whatever may be the fate of Fort Sumter in the future, that "old f...