| Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...magazine surrounded by flames and its doors closed from the effects of the beat, four barrels and three cartridges of powder only being available, and no...remaining, I accepted terms of evacuation offered by General Beauregard, being the same offered by him on the llth insi, prior to the commencement of hostilities,... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...Sumter for thirtyfour hours, until the qnarters were entirely burned, Anderson's Offlcul Dispatch. the main gates destroyed by fire, the gorge wall seriously...injured, the magazine surrounded by flames, and its door closed from the effects of the heat, four harrels and three cartridges of powder only being available,... | |
| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...Sumter was brief, and to the point : " Having defended," he wrote to the secretary of war, Cameron, " Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters...injured, the magazine surrounded by flames, and its door closed from the effects of the heat, four barrels and three cartridges of powder Only being available,... | |
| James W. Hunnicutt - History - 1863 - 462 pages
...ANDERSON'S OFFICIAL REPORT. " STEAMSHIP BALTIC, OFF SANDY HOOK, April 18, 1861, 10.30. AM, via NY " Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters were entirely burnt, the main gates destroyed by fire, the gorge-walls seriously injured, the magazine surrounded... | |
| James W. Hunnicutt - History - 1863 - 488 pages
...MAJOR ANDERSON'S OFFICIAL REPORT. " STEAMSHIP BALTIC, on SANDY HOOK, April 18, 1861, 10.30. AM, via NY "Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters were entirely burnt, the main gates destroyed by fire, the gorge-walls seriously injured, the magazine surrounded... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...SANDT HOOK, ) April 18, 1861. f " The Honorable S. CAMKKON, Secretary of War, Washington, DC : " SIR : Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours,...quarters were entirely burned, the main gates destroyed, the gorge-wall seriously injured, the magazine surrounded by flames, and its door closed from the effects... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1865 - 692 pages
...SANDY HOOK, ) April 18, 1861. J " The Honorable S. CAMERON, Secretary of War, Washington, DC : "Sin: Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours,...quarters were entirely burned, the main gates destroyed, the gorge-wall seriously injured, the magazine surrounded by flames, and its door closed from the effects... | |
| HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...The Honorable S. CAMEEOIST, Secretary of War, Washington, DC : " SIK : Having defended Fort Stimter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters were entirely burned, the main gates destroyed, the gorge- wall seriously injured, the magazine surrounded by flames, and its door closed from the... | |
| William Jewett Tenney - United States - 1865 - 884 pages
...Department, was as follows : OTKAMBinp BALTIC, off Sandy ITook, 1 April IS, 1SC1— 10:80 AM, via New York. \ Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters were entirely burnt, the main gates destroyed by fire, the gorge walls seriously injured, the magazine surrounded... | |
| Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 690 pages
...то THE SECUTABT OP STEAMSHIP BALTIC, OFT SAÏTOT HOOK, Aprü 18, 1861, 10.30 A. J/., ría \tvj York. Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters were entirely burnt, the main gatee destroyed by fire, the gorge walla seriously injured, the magazine surrounded... | |
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