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f the Pelican flag, when news was received of South Carolina's secession. It was an instructive spectacle. I wonder whether the signers of our Declaration of Independence looked as silly as those fellows. On the 20th of April, 1861, hearing of the attack made the preceding day in Baltimore on the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, Lowell instantly abandoned his position and set out for Washington. In what manner he made the journey is not clearly known; but he reached the capital on Monday, April 22d, one of the first-comers from the North since public communication had been broken. He thus announced his action to his mother (April 24th): I was fortunate enough to be in Baltimore last Sunday, and to be here at present. How Jim and Henry will envy me! . . . . I shall come to see you, if I find there is nothing to be done here. So have the blue room ready. He put himself at once at the disposal of the government, and applied for the commission of Second Lieutenant of Artillery