Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1.

1 The loyal Wilcox tried to escape to the North. He reached Norfolk, where he was pressed into the “Confederate service,” in which he remained, at that place, until it was taken possession of in May, 1862.

2 Report of Commander H. A. Adams to the Secretary of the Navy, April 14, 1861.

3 Statement of Mr. Wilcox. A correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, writing on the 18th, said that the firing alarmed the insurgents. An attack on Fort McRee was expected. The troops were called out, and many of them lay on their arms all night. On the day after the re-enforcement, John Tyler, Jr., son of ex-President Tyler. who was employed under Walker, the so-called “Secretary of War,” telegraphed the fact to the Richmond Enquirer, saying:--“Re-enforcements were thrown into Fort Pickens by the Government at Washington, in violation of the convention existing between that Government and this Confederacy.” This false charge of bad faith on the part of the National Government was intended to affect the Virginia Convention, then sitting in Richmond. Tyler telegraphed “by authority of the Hon. L. P. Walker,” who did not consider his order to Bragg, some time before, to attack Fort Pickens at the earliest practicable moment, as a “violation of the convention” which he pretended had existence. What was called “bad faith” on the part of the National Government, appears to have been considered highly. honorable for the conspirators to practice. Such evidences of moral obliquity, on the part of the leaders in the rebellion, were continually observed throughout the war that ensued.