Southern History of the War: The first year of the warC.B. Richardson, 1863 - Confederate States of America |
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... Fort Sumter , -Perfidy of the Federal Government . - Excitement in Charleston . - Reduction of Fort Sumter by the Confederate Forces . - How the News was received in Wash- ington . - Lincoln's Calculation . - His Proclamation of WAR ...
... Fort Sumter , -Perfidy of the Federal Government . - Excitement in Charleston . - Reduction of Fort Sumter by the Confederate Forces . - How the News was received in Wash- ington . - Lincoln's Calculation . - His Proclamation of WAR ...
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... Fort Moultrie , spiking the 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 ...
... Fort Moultrie , spiking the 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 ...
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... Fort Sumter , under the specious plea of provisioning a " starv- ing garrison ; " and when the Federal steamship , the Star of the West , which was sent on this mission , was , on the 9th of January , driven off Charleston harbor by the ...
... Fort Sumter , under the specious plea of provisioning a " starv- ing garrison ; " and when the Federal steamship , the Star of the West , which was sent on this mission , was , on the 9th of January , driven off Charleston harbor by the ...
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... Fort Sumter . - Perfidy of the Federal Government . - Excitement in Charleston . - Reduction of Fort Sumter by the Confederate Forces . - How the News was received in Wash- ington . - Lincoln's Calculation . - His Proclamation of WAR ...
... Fort Sumter . - Perfidy of the Federal Government . - Excitement in Charleston . - Reduction of Fort Sumter by the Confederate Forces . - How the News was received in Wash- ington . - Lincoln's Calculation . - His Proclamation of WAR ...
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... Fort Moultrie coup de main " -referring to the fraud by which the government had stolen a march by midnight to the supposed impregnable defences of Fort Sumter . But Mr. Lincoln's fears for his personal safety evidently did not subside ...
... Fort Moultrie coup de main " -referring to the fraud by which the government had stolen a march by midnight to the supposed impregnable defences of Fort Sumter . But Mr. Lincoln's fears for his personal safety evidently did not subside ...
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