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The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], General Scott's Opinions on the war. (search)
sloop-of-war and cutter may be ordered for the same purpose as early as to-morrow. "General Scott will wait upon the President at any moment he may be called for." The South Carolina Commissioners had already been many days in Washington, and no movement of defence (on the part of the United States) was permitted. I will here close my notice of Fort Sumter by quoting from some of my previous reports: It would have been easy to reinforce this fort down to about the 12th of February. In this long delay Fort Moultrie had been rearmed and greatly strengthened in every way by the rebels. Many powerful new land batteries (besides a formidable raft) had been constructed Hulks, too, have been punk in the principal channel, so as to render access to Fort Sumter from the sea impracticable without first carrying all the lower batteries of the Secessionists. The difficulty of reinforcing had thus been increased ten or twelve fold. First, the late President refused to allo