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... Union naturally claimed the correspond- ing right to resume possession of all the land they had ceded to that Union's Government for the use of its naval and military posts . So South Carolina , after leading the way to secession on ...
... Union naturally claimed the correspond- ing right to resume possession of all the land they had ceded to that Union's Government for the use of its naval and military posts . So South Carolina , after leading the way to secession on ...
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... Union ; and its commandant , Major Robert Anderson , though born in the slave- owning State of Kentucky , was determined to fight . The situation , here as elsewhere , was compli- cated by Floyd , President Buchanan's Secretary of War ...
... Union ; and its commandant , Major Robert Anderson , though born in the slave- owning State of Kentucky , was determined to fight . The situation , here as elsewhere , was compli- cated by Floyd , President Buchanan's Secretary of War ...
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... Union had to hold its own . This garrison , under two loyal young lieutenants , Slemmer and Gilman , occupied Barrancas Barracks in Pensacola Bay . Late at night on the eighth of January ( the day X before the Star of the West was fired ...
... Union had to hold its own . This garrison , under two loyal young lieutenants , Slemmer and Gilman , occupied Barrancas Barracks in Pensacola Bay . Late at night on the eighth of January ( the day X before the Star of the West was fired ...
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... Union and secession . On the ninth Slemmer received orders from Winfield Scott , General - in - Chief at Washing- ton , to use all means in defense of Union property . Next morning Slemmer and his fifty faithful men were landed on Santa ...
... Union and secession . On the ninth Slemmer received orders from Winfield Scott , General - in - Chief at Washing- ton , to use all means in defense of Union property . Next morning Slemmer and his fifty faithful men were landed on Santa ...
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... Union officer , saying , " Here , Gilman , you have good eyes , please read it . " Slemmer refused to surrender and held out till reinforced in April , by which time the war had begun in earnest . Fort Pickens was never taken . On the ...
... Union officer , saying , " Here , Gilman , you have good eyes , please read it . " Slemmer refused to surrender and held out till reinforced in April , by which time the war had begun in earnest . Fort Pickens was never taken . On the ...
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