Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Anderson or search for Anderson in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
A visit to Fort Sumter. "Carleton" writes to the Boston Journal as follows: "After a ramble of several hours through the city of Charleston, we made a visit to Sumter, entering by the sally-port where Major Anderson entered on that ever-to-be-remembered January night of 1861. The fort bears little resemblance to its appearance then, externally or internally. No portion of the original face of the wall is to be seen, except on the side towards Charleston and a portion of that facinguments of folly and wickedness. As I stood there upon the ruins of Sumter, looking down into the crater, the past, like a panorama, was unrolled, exhibiting the mighty events which will forever make it historic ground. The silent landing of Major Anderson at the postern gate, the midnight prayer and solemn consecration of the little band to defend the flag till the last, the long weeks of preparation, the imbecile old man at Washington, the Star of the South turning her bow seaward, the 12th o