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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)
hat they would let him alone for the time, provided no reinforcements were sent to him. The Secretary of War, feigning to accept these hypocritical promises from men with whom he was secretly in accord, 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 Mou