Major Robert Anderson, commanding the First Artillery Regiment of the Army of the united States, transfers his unit to the more tenable Fort Sumter, centered in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.

       [restored 3/5/2022]

Subsequent Events:

12/27/1860                   12/31/1860                   1/5/1861                  1/9/1861                   2/26/1861

3/29/1861

References:

Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 282.

Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 151.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,217,480,035,223

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