Non-partisan (constitutionalist) Governor Francis W. Pickens, of the Independent Republic of South Carolina, receives notice from Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, that a Union flotilla of one gun boat, three tugboats and a chartered steamer carrying provisions and 200 Soldiers, under the command of Captain Gustavus V. Fox, have been dispatched to force the relief of Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 284.
Richard N. Current, The Lincoln Nobody Knows, (New York: Hill and Wang, 1958), 117.
Fort Sumter – Wikipedia
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