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The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], Letter from the Commander of Fort Gaines . (search)
Letter from the Commander of Fort Gaines.
The Mobile Advertiser publishes some extracts from a letter from Colonel C. D. Anderson, who surrendered Fort Gaines,Fort Gaines, and is now in prison at New Orleans.
The letter is to his wife, and is given to the public in defence of Colonel Anderson's fame He says:
I was compelled to surrender Fort Gaines through feelings of mercy for my officers and men, who earnestly appealed to me. The position was utterly untenable, the fleet having passed an on my own responsibility.
Besides this, Captains Smith and Thom had visited Fort Gaines only the night previous, and foreseeing the inevitable result, they told me e mad, forlorn and unavailing desperation of making a human slaughter-pen of Fort Gaines?
Instead of this, however, he returned immediately, thus avoiding any impli thizers here, such for instance as "that I am a Baltimore Plug-ugly and sold Fort Gaines, and that numbers of us are taking the cath of allegiance to the United Stat