The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1861-01-31
Fort Sumter without Provisic ns

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To Ae Editors OF .t.e ~. y Eoeaiag Post:
In this evenings Post, in your leading
articleA"The Charleston Outrage"-you
amongst other things say that the garrison
ut Fort Sumter needs reinforcement, fuel
and provisions, you ask show it happened
that Major Anderson offered to keep the
two hundred laborers in the fort if they
would do duty under the United States
hag!" &c. @
Perhaps the following statement of facts
from hlr. George McFaiden, employed at
Fort Moul.rie and at Fort Sumter. NAV
clear up the doubts of some, falsify the
statements OF others, and sustain the re-
marks OF this evenings Posts leading ar
ticle. MIR. George McFadden, formerly a
solder OF the CnitedS States Army, for many
years serving in my command in the First
Division New York State Militia, and u
thorough practical so dier IN artillery, rifle
and infantry manual OF arms, n man of
great physical power, and u true soldier in
feeling, whose antecedcuts and practice
through all phases of life may be summed
up IN the one word integrity. You may,
therefore, place full confidence in his state
mcnt publicly made when he arrived ir
New ork, after he, in common with others.
was discharged from Fort Sumter by Major
Anderson
SERGEANT GEO. MFADDEN's STATEMENT.
Fort Noultrie was in much better con-
dition for defence than Fort Sumter; near.
! " all the guns were mounted, and every
thing was IN apple pie order, and the men
| III good condition three duys befure we
retired from Fort Nouliric, Major Ander-
s'n brought from Fort Sumter au apparatus
10 uount Tie remaining guns This appa-
riius was left behiud at Fort Mouitrie.
W hcn We arrived at Fort Sumter every
thing was cold, miserable, and unfinished.
Fort Sumter has .iicc fuccs 20 Il, and some
nine or ten guns imperlcctly mounted.
these guns cannot be depressed sufficiently
TO defend the Fort. They are mounted for
ion- range shot. and any object within a
mile or Il mile and half OF this Fort it
would be rs harmless to it as our present
Tort on our battery cnfiading the channel
| between Governor and Ellis Islands would
! be harmless to the boats constantly passing
it.
Fort Sumter has no provisions Major
| Anderson took from Fort Mouitrie some
htty barrels OF -four and one or two casks
ot other provisions. A sergeant and so uad
OF mcn in citizens dress were sent ashore
to purchase provisions They procured
some eighty pounds of beef, with veueta-
bies, &c. The Charleston Vigilant Com,
mittec would not permit them to take away
the provisions they had paid for, and they
! threatened the lives of the men if they
persisted i'll doing so. Fort Sumter has nc
iucl, aud IT they have any at all it must be
10y burning what they can find in the For,
| 10 burn. The Fort is in 4 perfect state OF
inconIp!et, ness, and Us to Major Anderson
being able to dcfeud it-unlcss he is moi
attackcd-it Is all nonsense He will be d
smarter man than | take him To be If he
can do 1t against lot Of men. Only give
me Il hundred determined fellows, and III
have possession of that Fort in a half hou,
from the moMcut we get ON the luuding
all u want is all additional number Of men
10 carry and raise the ladders for the men
to scale the walls.
"Mujor Anderson never asked the work
men to stay aud tight under the American
ha.s II he had done 50 Tor one would
have stuck 90 him as loag as he had any
tnms to stick 10. On the contrary he wa.
most anNioas to get rid of the mapy cxtr;
mouths that were eating up the provision,
he n..d f,r his own men AS to ali III.
statements OF the papers as to his imprpgna
Uii!ty, 1t l. all balder,lash,' &c. &c.
think have here given nearly csrLu
tan the statement of Mr.. McFaddcn Iii
be of any value to YOU, or If its publication
can nut our past military resources, as rep
Resented in our military bureau at Wash
ingion, 10 the Lush, it is at your service
A. &. CASTLE.