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... 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 Rosa Island , just one mile across the bay , where ...
... 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 Rosa Island , just one mile across the bay , where ...
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... ordered the state militia to seize every place belonging to the Union , and striking inland till it reached the ... orders , no support , and not even any guidance from the Government at Washington , he surren- dered with the honors ...
... ordered the state militia to seize every place belonging to the Union , and striking inland till it reached the ... orders , no support , and not even any guidance from the Government at Washington , he surren- dered with the honors ...
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... order . A few days after the seizure of the Arsenal , and before the formal secession of the State , he wrote to the Governor : SIR : As I occupy a quasi - military position under the laws of the State , I deem it proper to acquaint you ...
... order . A few days after the seizure of the Arsenal , and before the formal secession of the State , he wrote to the Governor : SIR : As I occupy a quasi - military position under the laws of the State , I deem it proper to acquaint you ...
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... order , accounted for every cent of the funds , and received the heartiest thanks and best wishes of all the governing officials , who embodied the fol- lowing sentence in their final resolution of April 1 , 1861 : " They cannot fail to ...
... order , accounted for every cent of the funds , and received the heartiest thanks and best wishes of all the governing officials , who embodied the fol- lowing sentence in their final resolution of April 1 , 1861 : " They cannot fail to ...
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... orders from the Confederate Government , sent in a summons to surrender . Anderson refused . At a quarter to one the next morning the summons was repeated , as pilots had meanwhile reported a Federal vessel ap- proaching the harbor ...
... orders from the Confederate Government , sent in a summons to surrender . Anderson refused . At a quarter to one the next morning the summons was repeated , as pilots had meanwhile reported a Federal vessel ap- proaching the harbor ...
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