. Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865 . CHAPTER II SUMTER FIRED ON—SEIZURE BY CONFEDERATES OF ARMS,ARSENALS, AND FORTS—DISLOYALTY OF ARMY AND NAVYOFFICERS—PROCLAMATION OF LINCOLN FOR SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND MILITIA, AND PREPARATION FOR WARON BOTH SIDES THE Star of the West, a merchant vessel, was sent from NewYork, with the reluctant consent of President Buchanan,by Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, Commander-in-Chief of the army, to c
. Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865 . CHAPTER II SUMTER FIRED ON—SEIZURE BY CONFEDERATES OF ARMS,ARSENALS, AND FORTS—DISLOYALTY OF ARMY AND NAVYOFFICERS—PROCLAMATION OF LINCOLN FOR SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND MILITIA, AND PREPARATION FOR WARON BOTH SIDES THE Star of the West, a merchant vessel, was sent from NewYork, with the reluctant consent of President Buchanan,by Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, Commander-in-Chief of the army, to carry re-enforcements and provisions toFort Sumter. As this vessel attempted to enter Charlestonharbor (January 9, 1861) a shot was fired across its bows whichturned it back, and its mission failed. Slapped in themouth was the opprobrious epithet used to express this in-sult to the United States. This was not the shot that sum-moned the North to arms. It was, however, the first angrygun fired by a citizen of the Union against his countrys flag,and it announced the dawn of civil war. When this shot wasfired, only South Carolina had passed an Ordinance of Seces-sion ; the Confederate States
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