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Abner Doubleday. Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61
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INTRODUCTION
REMINISCENCES OF. FORTS SUMTER AND MOULTRIE. IN 1860–'61
CHAPTER I
FORT MOULTRIE IN 1860
CHAPTER II
PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENSE
CHAPTER III
PRELIMINARY MOVEMENTS OF THE SECESSIONISTS
CHAPTER IV
THE REMOVAL TO FORT SUMTER
CHAPTER V
THE FIRST OVERT ACT
CHAPTER VI
EFFECT OF ANDERSON'S MOVEMENT
CHAPTER VII
THE "STAR OF THE WEST."
CHAPTER VIII
A RESORT TO DIPLOMACY
CHAPTER IX
THE CRISIS AT HAND
CHAPTER X
THE BOMBARDMENT
CHAPTER XI
THE EVACUATION
APPENDIX
FOOTNOTES:
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Published by Good Press, 2019
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It is an interesting question to know how far at this period the Secretary of War himself was loyal. Mr. Dawson, the able editor of the Historical Magazine, is of opinion, after a careful investigation of the facts, that Floyd at this time was true to the Union, and that he remained so until December 24th, when it was discovered that he had been advancing large sums of money from the Treasury to contractors, to pay for work which had never been commenced. To make the loss good, nearly a million of dollars was taken from the Indian Trust Fund.
Finding he would be dismissed from the Cabinet for his complicity in these transactions, and would also be indicted by the Grand Jury of the District of Columbia, he made a furious Secession speech, sent in his resignation, and suddenly left for the South.[2] Mr. Dawson founds his opinion in this case upon the statement of Fitz John Porter, who was a major on duty in the War Department at the time, and therefore apparently well qualified to judge. Floyd's actions toward us, however, were not those of a true man, and I am of opinion that his loyalty was merely assumed for the occasion. He sent seventeen thousand muskets to South Carolina, when he knew that Charleston was a hot-bed of sedition, and that in all probability the arms would be used against the United States. Greeley says, in his "American Conflict," that during these turbulent times Floyd disarmed the Government by forwarding one hundred and fifteen thousand muskets, in all, to the Southern Confederacy.[3] In addition to this, he sold large quantities of arms to S.B. Lamar, of Savannah, and other Secessionists in the South, on the plea that the muskets thus disposed of did not conform to the latest army model. Just before his resignation, he continued the same policy by directing that one hundred and twenty-four heavy guns should be shipped from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to Ship Island, Mississippi, where there was no garrison, and to Galveston, Texas. Yet this was the official upon whom we were to rely for advice and protection. This was the wolf who was to guard the fold.
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