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Chapter 2: Description of Charleston. General Beauregard's arrival. cursory sketch of the condition of the public mind in the South. the Hon. Robert Barnwell Rhett. one sentiment and one resolve animating South Carolinians. South Carolina commissioners to Washington. failure of negotiations. Major Anderson evacuates Fort Moultrie and occupies Fort Sumter. hoisting of Palmetto flags. steamer Star of the West. Governor Pickens summons Major Anderson to surrender the Fort. he declines, but refers the matter to Washington. Mr. Buchanan refuses to withdraw federal garrison. all eyes centred on South Carolina. system and plan of operations adopted by General Beauregard. more troops volunteer than are needed.> Seven miles from the Atlantic Ocean, and looking out upon it to the southeast, stands the city of Charleston, built at the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers. It is on a tongue of the mainland, consisting of gray sandy soil, and extends southward,