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... immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent , the moment the State determines to secede , for on no earthly ac- count will I do any act or think any thought hos- tile to , or in defiance of , the old Government of the United States ...
... immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent , the moment the State determines to secede , for on no earthly ac- count will I do any act or think any thought hos- tile to , or in defiance of , the old Government of the United States ...
Page 12
... again refused and again admitted that he would be starved out on the fifteenth . Thereupon Beauregard's aides declared immediate surrender the only possible alternative to a bombardment and 12 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
... again refused and again admitted that he would be starved out on the fifteenth . Thereupon Beauregard's aides declared immediate surrender the only possible alternative to a bombardment and 12 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
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William Wood. immediate surrender the only possible alternative to a bombardment and signed a note at 3:20 A.M. giving Anderson formal warning that fire would be opened in an hour . Fort Sumter stood about half a mile inside the harbor ...
William Wood. immediate surrender the only possible alternative to a bombardment and signed a note at 3:20 A.M. giving Anderson formal warning that fire would be opened in an hour . Fort Sumter stood about half a mile inside the harbor ...
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... Immediately the Confederates redoubled their efforts . Inside Sumter the fire was creeping towards the magazine , the door of which was shut only just in time . Then the flagstaff was shot down . Anderson ran his colors up again , but ...
... Immediately the Confederates redoubled their efforts . Inside Sumter the fire was creeping towards the magazine , the door of which was shut only just in time . Then the flagstaff was shot down . Anderson ran his colors up again , but ...
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... immediately and smash every hostile force while still in the act of forming . But General Harney , who commanded the Department of the West , returned to St. Louis the day after the shooting and made peace instead of war with Price . By ...
... immediately and smash every hostile force while still in the act of forming . But General Harney , who commanded the Department of the West , returned to St. Louis the day after the shooting and made peace instead of war with Price . By ...
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