Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Lee or search for Lee in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
elieved that before the day was passed, the booming of cannon would be heard, when another fact was communicated from mouth to mouth. At about 2 o'clock P. M., Col. James Chesnut, Jr., of Gen. Beauregard's staff, accompanied by Cols. Chisholm and Lee, left the city for Fort Sumter, bearing the summons to Major Anderson for the surrender of that fortification. They returned between five and six o'clock with the reply. As the precise nature of his answer has not yet transpired, we pass it overy. The Charleston Mercury, of the same date, says: The reliable events of the day were, that about three o'clock a demand for the evacuation of Fort Sumter was made by Gen. Beauregard, through his Aids, Col. Chesnut, Col. Chisholm, and Capt. Lee, and that Major Anderson replied he could not, consistently with his honor as an officer of the United States Army, retire from his post without instructions from his Government. At half-past 11 P. M., Gen. Beauregard's final reply was borne t