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The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], What a U. S. Naval officer Thinks of Fort Pickens. (search)
What a U. S. Naval officer Thinks of Fort Pickens. --The New York Times publishes the following letter from a United States officer on the Powhatan, off Pensacola, dated May 16: There is now no use in concealing the fact that the fight here will be one of the most desperate of the war. Our preparations are progressing rapidly, and fully justify us in the opinion that Fort Pickens is almost impregnable. But the gigantic strides making by Bragg's command, may well prevent us from anticipating a quiet capture of the Navy-Yard and Barrancas, the possession of which is necessary to the end of hostilities in these parts. Now, it is on the best authottered for miles around, and have some of the best officers in America to regulate their movements. There are at least six batteries that may open fire on Fort Pickens now concealed, and of course the exact places in which they are situated no one of us can find out. The skill of three United States military and naval officer
The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
it cannot be learned here how many ships were off Sumter when it surrendered; but notwithstanding what has occurred. I reiterate the assertion that the Washington Cabinet always said, and say they had no intention to provoke a conflict there, and that had the authorities at Charleston continued their permission to the garrison to procure supplies in their markets, there would have been no immediate action on their part to precipitate the fight, though they were determined to hold it and Fort Pickens, as well as Tortugas and Key West, and to victual and strengthen the garrison of the former as soon as they were able. Fate was against them. The decision and power of their opponents was against them. But their defence will be that they could not do anything until they got troops and ships and munitions of war together, and that they did as much as they could in a month. Sumter, in fact, was a mouse in the jaws of the cat, and the moment an attempt was made to release the prey by ext