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Page 36
... guns and burning the gun - carriages , and occupied Fort Sumter , with a view of strengthening his po- sition . On the 30th of December , John B. Floyd , Secretary of War , resigned his office , because President Buchanan refused to ...
... guns and burning the gun - carriages , and occupied Fort Sumter , with a view of strengthening his po- sition . On the 30th of December , John B. Floyd , Secretary of War , resigned his office , because President Buchanan refused to ...
Page 43
... gun , in the hands of a Secessionist selected for this desperate and romantic task of assassination . The President , with nerves already shattered by his flight from Harrisburg , was easily put in a new condition of alarm . An armed ...
... gun , in the hands of a Secessionist selected for this desperate and romantic task of assassination . The President , with nerves already shattered by his flight from Harrisburg , was easily put in a new condition of alarm . An armed ...
Page 45
... gun ; he was instantly seized by a dozen of them , and hurried from the scene of the ceremony with a rapidity and decision that for a moment alarmed , and then amused , the crowd . Mr. Lincoln delivered his inaugural from the East ...
... gun ; he was instantly seized by a dozen of them , and hurried from the scene of the ceremony with a rapidity and decision that for a moment alarmed , and then amused , the crowd . Mr. Lincoln delivered his inaugural from the East ...
Page 51
... guns at Fort Moultrie , and three 24 - pounder guns mounted en barbette on a hastily constructed and imperfect earthwork on Morris ' Island . The injured guns were replaced , and all , amounting to thirty - eight in number , of various ...
... guns at Fort Moultrie , and three 24 - pounder guns mounted en barbette on a hastily constructed and imperfect earthwork on Morris ' Island . The injured guns were replaced , and all , amounting to thirty - eight in number , of various ...
Page 52
... guns and four hundred men , prepared as convoy to the transports Atlantic , Baltic , and Illinois . On the 8th , the Atlantic sailed with Barry's battery ( four guns and ninety - one men ) , four hundred soldiers and a large store of ...
... guns and four hundred men , prepared as convoy to the transports Atlantic , Baltic , and Illinois . On the 8th , the Atlantic sailed with Barry's battery ( four guns and ninety - one men ) , four hundred soldiers and a large store of ...
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