The evening world., 1911-12-08

VI OuT ,COuntIy
By Albert Payson Terhune
opydn. 1911. by ,. Pres Publishing Co.. on. lew Ya wonO.
No. 33-The Attack on Fort Sumter.
,~lEvENTYFIvE men-haggard from sleeplessness. saunt from
is hunger. grimy with powder and deasened by a ceaseless roar Of
shot and shel. were battling for the American flag against IN
N overwhelming force Of assanant. me April day in 1861.
And every shot fired in that bombardment helped awaken to fierce
action a nation that still lay dreaming Of peace and compromise. For these
When the first Southern States seeded. late in 1860, they seized such
harbor of Charleston, s c., contained several forts One of them-Fort
MOultrie-was defended by seventyhve United States soldiers. commanded
by Major Robert Anderson. When South Carolina seeded, Anderson knew
not strong enough on the land side to be held by Andersons handful o,
men. So OF Dec. %, 1860, he secretly moved his little garrison t. Fort
Sumter a nex1y.onlt s,rOnshod on a shoaa in TIL arrowe par o., Charleston
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as, al oraveiy m calmly IS If victory instead IF absolutely certain defeat YER.
In tn mean time a squadron of TIRE United States, ships aad been ,n4 TO
relieve M garrison. tut a storm prevented these vessels from getting across
the harbors utter va And they coid do nothing in behalf Of the doomed
bar, Ut were forced to fight on without its ad. Som of the biz gun were
few wa struck. At last he stat ws spnnseed near the
ii on Glory. h.sore q could a,ch Arc s.r- p.tr En- cImhsd M
@ under Calling voneys from TIT oonsodcrsses and nailed The
GHmy lag to what vas left of n POLE
AgNn md again Beauregard sent messages demanding Nnrender m aiwuyV
Major Anderson ruboorniy refused. But the walls were gaping where soA
shot had torn them. The inside If the fort va untenable TOT fame and
smoke The me had been working ceaselesAy without sleep n on starva-
ton rahons for hhty-six hours Further resistance "a impossible Andersen
at last consented to acuae'th fort
Bt M made his W terms. He n his er were allowed to depart with
their arms n luggage nj were permitted to kep the nag they had 20 SPLEEN
ddLy defended. This nag a later used o a winding sheet for Andsrsons
BURIAL but Tot before II "a one more in 1866. raised utumphanuy above ts
ecovere fort
he news Of sumers fall swept through tn North, stranglng forever ~
hope Of compromlse Ind rning peace tak intoa mad clamor for var to the
death defense Of the threatened Union.
The civil "a had begun.