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Chapter 5: Sumter.
Governor Pickens, of South Carolina, began about the 1st of January to build batteries to isolate and reduce Fort Sumter; and the newly made General Beauregard was on the 1st of March sent by the rebel government to Charleston to assume direction of military affairs and to y this Government will not undertake to supply Sumter without notice to you.
This language did not ance, and place both troops and supplies in Fort Sumter.
Lincoln's notice having been communicat hour from that time.
The inhabitants of Charleston had now for more than three months followed est, until they began to regard the affairs of Sumter as their own pet and exclusive drama.
It had ordinarily occupied as barracks and quarters.
Sumter suffered most in this respect: the balls strik Falling on the parapet and the open parade of Sumter and exploding, their destructive force spent i he boats to carry the supplies and soldiers to Sumter, had been detached from this duty and sent to
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Chapter 6: the call to arms.
The assault upon Fort Sumter had doubtless been ordered by the rebel government under the hope, if not the tal watchword: You must sprinkle blood in the faces of the people.
Sumter was a bloodless conquest, but it nevertheless filled the South with r wild political lunacy, the symbols of a holy deliverance.
The Sumter bombardment, Lincoln's proclamation, and the enthusiastic war-spiri n addition to the six or seven thousand rebel troops assembled at Charleston to aid in the reduction of Sumter, and the four or five thousand is sent them his message, announcing that he had in the field, at Charleston, Pensacola, Forts Morgan, Jackson, St Philip, and Pulaski, ninet ction, an army of one hundred thousand men.
Between the fall of Sumter, however, and the date of this message, the whole revolution had un rush of popular excitement and passion consequent upon the fall of Sumter.
The three others, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, and also the
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Index. (search)
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