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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—secession. (search)
gave Anderson no instructions, intending thereby to make him an easy prey for his friends. But this officer had the courage—a rare thing in revolutionary times —to take the responsibility of a step which was to ensure his safety, and which his superiors had not dared to suggest. On the 26th of December, during the darkness of the night, he evacuated Fort Moultrie and occupied Fort Sumter with all his people. Rage and vexation rose to a high pitch in Charleston when, on the morning of the 27th, the Federal flag was seen hoisted over the walls of Sumter. The rebel authorities began by taking possession of the abandoned forts; great military preparations were ordered; the militia redoubled their activity, and the arms taken from the arsenal were distributed among them; the guns of Moultrie were turned against the fort which sheltered the little Federal garrison, and new batteries were begun on the beach to support their fire; finally, the commissioners appointed by South Carolina we
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
ce's rear. Consequently, on the 24th of September, a Confederate detachment which occupied the pass of the Osage at Osceola was surprised and put to flight by a party of four hundred Federal mounted men from Kansas, and the depot which they were guarding was given up to plunder. But Price deceived his adversaries by sending his cavalry to threaten several points at once, and by means of forced marches he succeeded in escaping them with the troops he had retained about him. He started on the 27th, the very day on which Fremont began his march, and quickly gained the borders of the Osage, which his soldiers crossed in boats constructed by their own hands. Thence he proceeded towards Neosho, where McCulloch was awaiting him with five thousand men. It was in this town, situated on the frontier of the Indian Territory, that the legislature, faithful to the cause of the South, had assembled and proclaimed the secession of a State over which it no longer exercised any authority. Price h