A history of the United States for schools . death. It is unnecessary: it puts us in the Capture . r 1 )> 1 T • r 1 • of Fort wrong ; it is fatal. -^ In spite of this warning,Davis sent orders to General Beauregard, com-manding at Charleston, to demand the evacuation ofFort Sumter, and in case of refusal, to reduce the Federal officer in command. Major Robert An-derson, refused to surrender, a bombardment was begunon the morning of Friday, April 12, and continued until 1 Stovalls Life of Toombs, p. 226. §139- SLAVERY AND SECESSION. 377 the following Sunday afternoon, when the little g
A history of the United States for schools . death. It is unnecessary: it puts us in the Capture . r 1 )> 1 T • r 1 • of Fort wrong ; it is fatal. -^ In spite of this warning,Davis sent orders to General Beauregard, com-manding at Charleston, to demand the evacuation ofFort Sumter, and in case of refusal, to reduce the Federal officer in command. Major Robert An-derson, refused to surrender, a bombardment was begunon the morning of Friday, April 12, and continued until 1 Stovalls Life of Toombs, p. 226. §139- SLAVERY AND SECESSION. 377 the following Sunday afternoon, when the little garrisonsurrendered and were allowed to march out with flyingcolors. Not a man was killed on either side. The nextday President Lincoln issued a proclamation calling uponthe state governments for 75,000 troops. On Wednesdaythe 17th, Jefferson Davis replied with a proclamationwhich authorized the fitting out of privateers to attackthe merchant shipping of the United States. On Fridaythe 19th, President Lincoln rejoined by proclaiming a. FOKI blockade of the whole southern coast from South Caro-lina to Texas inclusive, and declaring that Confederateprivateers would be treated as pirates. Thus on bothsides was war most emphatically declared. The firstactual bloodshed occurred on that same 19th of April,which by a curious coincidence was the anniversary ofthe bloodshed that ushered in the War for Independ-ence. On that day a regiment from Massachusetts, on 378 THE FEDERAL UNION. Ch. XV. its way to Washington, was fired on by a mob as it waspassing through Baltimore, and several men were Limits of the Confederacy Defined. The ef-fect of the capture of Fort Sumter was like that oftouching a lighted match to a powder magazine. There^, ,, , was a sudden and tremendous outburst of pa- The North . ^ accepts triotic feeling in all the northern states. Therewas no further talk of compromise. In the en-deavor to avoid war, the North felt that it had gone asfar as r
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