Fort attacked on April 12, 1861

Usage examples of sumter.

Correspondence of Marion and Greene -- Anecdote of Colonel Snipes -- Marion takes Georgetown -- Attempt of Sumter and Marion on Col. Coates -- Battle of Quinby Bridge.

Sumter, leaving the investment of Granby, the conquest of which was considered sure, to Col. Taylor, proceeded down the country, with the two-fold object of harassing the descent of the British army, and to prevent them from carrying off the cattle of the inhabitants.

Sumter and Marion then proceeded against the post at Biggin, held by Col. Coates of the British army, a spirited officer, with a garrison of five hundred infantry, one hundred and fifty horse, and one piece of artillery.

Sumter, at the same time, with a brigade of State troops and some companies of militia, was ordered to take post at Orangeburg, to cover the country from the inroads of the loyalists from Charleston.

Sumter and Marion then proceeded against the post at Biggin, held by Col.

A soft-hearted slave-owner - Social gaiety in the midst of war talk - Beauregard a hero and a demigod - The first shot of the war - Anderson refuses to capitulate - The bombardment of Fort Sumter as seen from the housetops - War steamers arrive in Charleston harbor - "Bull Run" Russell - Demeanor of the negroes .

The first shot had been fired at Elkton, their Fort Sumter, when she had blamed him for her heel breaking off and he had countered, logically, that if she were to watch where she was walking .

You'll miss me for about ten minutes, until old Bubba Gagnier starts taking you out in that leaky catboat of his, and giving you that stuff about his old man's eighteen hundred acres of loblolly pine in Sumter County.

Pa talks war morning, noon and night, and all the gentlemen who come to see him shout about Fort Sumter and States’.

I am now in favor of provisioning Fort Sumter, no matter what the risk.

Bob Martinez is still rhapsodizing about the electric chair, while Lawton Chiles has enlisted the sheriff of Sumter CountySumter County!

In any case, Seward’s use of the old man had ended with the rejection of Scott’s advice to abandon Fort Sumter, prompted entirely by Seward, who had believed then and still believed that, given a foreign war, the seceded states would return to the fold.

Now one of his secretaries, Ellen Sumter, knew about some rather restricted things--but she was a.