The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-04-12
Fort Moultrie.

embrasures of Fort Moultrie.
The contest continued until the
afternoon of April 18th. The bar
racks and officers quarters in the fort
were several times set on fire by
bursting shells and red-hot shot, and
though the flames were extinguished
several times they finally gained
such volume that it was found i'm
possible to check them. The garri-
son suffered much from the heat,
smoke and flying cinders, and it be-
came necessary to close the maya
zines to prevent the fire from reach
ing it. At the same time, hunger
began to stare the defenders of the
fort in the face. Their provisions
were reduced to few barrels of salt
pork, and at breakfast on the 18th
the pork had been supplemented
with their last ration of rice. To-
ward evening on the 18th, a flag of
tuce was sent by Gen. Beauregard,
and by eight o'clock terms of sur
render were agreed on. At noon on
April 14th, the American flag was
lowered, with salute of artillery,
and at four o'clock a secession gar
rison took possession.
On the afternoon OF April 18th,
part of relief expedition which had
been sent from New York appeared
off the harbor. AS planned, the ex-
pedition was to consist of the sloops-
of-war Pawnee, Powhatan and Poca-
hontas, the revenue cutter Harriet
Lane, three transports, with sup
plies, and about eight hundred
troops, and two tugs. But only the
Pawnee and the Harriet Lane, with
the transport Baltic, reached the
mouth of the harbor, and it was
deemed impracticable to land at the
fort under the fire of the secession
batteries. On April 18th Major An
derson and his command were trans
ferred from the fort to the Baltic
by the South Carolina steamer Isa-
bel, and sailed for New York AS
the steamer passed Cummings Point,
the secession soldiers stationed
there lined the beach, silent, and
with heads uncovered, as a mark OF
respect to the defenders of the fort.
The Casualties.
The most remarkable feature of
/ the bombardment was that no one
was killed. In Fort Sumter, the
classmates formed a substantial pro-
| men were injured by flying frag-
ments of an embrasure which had
been struck by a shot from Cum
mings Point and a civilian en-
ployee was severely wounded by
pieces of a bursting shell. Lieut.
Col. R. S. Ripley, the South Carolina
artillery commandant on Sullivan's S
Island, reported -four slight casual
tinG ~ and Con Il
the same loss as but four slightly
wounded" In saluting the flag at
Fort Sumter, after the surrender
'one man was instantly killed, one
mortally and four severely wounded,
by the premature discharge OF a gun
and explosion of a pile of cart
ridges, as reported by Capt. Foster,
OF the Engineer Corps
Thus the opening victory was won
for slavery. But after a war of four
years, of a magnitude unparalleled
in human history, slavery, and the
pestilential brood which it had
begotten, -nullification, secession,
rebellion, treason,-were in one red
burial blent, never again. to rise.
Speech of Mr.. Greene.
Fifty years ago tonight this coun-
try had reached the most critical mo-
ment in all her history. The crisis
was on. The turn of a hand, the
utterance of a word, the breadth of a
| hair was all that stood between the
preservation of the integrity of the
United States and the destruction of
the Union that the fathers had plan
ned and built In the preceding aut-
! umn the presidential campaign had
been waged between the forces that
stood on the one hand for the re-
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