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The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
he will be immediately reinforced. That is all he desires. The Secretaries of War and of the Navy have been engaged for some time in arranging matters to that end. It appears by letters received here from Charleston that the people doubt their ability to take Fort Sumter. A gentleman there writing to this city says the impression is very general among the military men that they would not be able to take it; that whether they take it or not, there must be a fearful loss of life. The President has received intelligence from Charleston stating that Gov. Pickens had referred the question of Fort Sumter--it having now become a national question --to the Government of the Southern Confederacy at Montgomery, and that no movement would be made looking to an attack until action had been taken by the Southern Republic. But, on the heels of this intelligence, information has been received here to the effect that the Republic had decided at once to invest Forts Pickens and Sumter.