The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-09
IN Four Years of Strife and Bloodshed Was Fired

every newspaper and private citizen
whose loyalty was in doubt. When
the sumter garrison reached the me-
cFopohs' othcers and men were seized
ana forced to ride through the banner-4
decked streets on the shoulders OF
crowd mad with enthusiast Their
money was refused by the merchants.
the New York authorities voted Ander-
son the freedom Of the city the Cham
per Of Commerce voted him and each
lzens OF Taunton, Mass, and Of Pill
adelphia voted him elegant swords, and
he was the lion Of the North
fle and five Of the officers who helped
MIN defend Sumter became Union ma
Tor generals by brevet. These were
Captain Abner Doubleday, Captain j.
G. Foster, Surgeon S. w Crawford.
Lieutenant Truman Seymour and Liau-
tenant Jefferson C.. Davis. of Indiana. III
, who was not related to the President
OF the Confcderacy. The other officers
participating in Sumters defense were
Lieutenants G. w. Snyder and Theo-
dore Talbot, who both died before the
war had fairly begun, and Lieutenant
e. X. Meade, Jr, the only one OF the
harrison to join the Confederate cause.
re also died soon after the war had
opened Major Anderson was at once
| promoted to brigadier- general by Lin
com and placed in command Of the De-
hS
OF the Cumberland. 1t was largely due
TO his efforts that the National SOL
diers' Home was esta blished in Wash
inSton. he died in Europe in 1863,
leaving an elder brother. Larz Ander-
son. a Cincinnati capitalist. who mar
rled daughter of the elder Nicholas
Longworth -.
Fircr Of First Shot Suicide.
The man who fred the first r,,n ~
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virginia planter. who. when South Car
DINA seeded. went to that State and
joined the Palmetto Guard. at Charles
ton. lie was member Of the garrison
upon the ronclad battery on Morris
Is'anu' and was selected by Beauregard
10 hre the first shot because It had been
agreed that the Oldest man within the
confederate works should have that
distinction. He was then siXty-seyen
years old, and the accompanying por-
trait OF him was taken bv the great
war photographer, Brady. soon after
ward He shot himself after Lees sur
render, because he was unwilling to
| live Under the United states govern
! mcnt. -, Il :'''li4
He is alleged to have been the dis
| coverer OF the value Of mari as q fer
tilizer. His claim to having fired the
| first shot Of the war was disputed by
| partisans of Bishop Stevens, Of the
| A'iS'itoNioN tNhuIGii, WHO NTed the HrSt
| gun at the Star Of the Nest, but his
| torians generally accept the firing on
Fort Sumter as the actual beginning
OF the Civil War. The first Union gun
OF that struggle was aimed by Captain
Abner Doubleday, Of the Sumter garri-
son.
The "Bastile of the Federal Onion.
! remained in Confederate hands until
| the approach of Sherman MS army. YIN
| February 1865 In the latter part OF
| ca attacking Union warships sent co.
600 shells into it. but although Its
| walls became completely crushed the
| tons of iron projectiles imbedded in is
| ruins only added to its strength.
| When Lincoln received news OF tbs
/ Confederate evacuation OF Charleston
he set apart April Is. 1865, the fourth
anniversary of Sumter's evacuation rbv9
its loyal garrison, for ceremonious
rehosttng of the old flag which Major
Anderson had sauted and taken away
with him. Anderson returned and
raised the old Nag himself during this
/ ceremony. and Henry Ward Beecher de-
livered the Grafton OF the day That
was Good Friday. which in 1865 came
on the 18th OF April. just as 1t does
this year. But President Lincoln never
| heard how his program at Sunter's
jubilee was carried out few hours
after the ceremony closed he was shot
| by Wilkes Booth. And thus did sum
ter mark the beginning and end Of our
| auadrennium Of blood
| Copyright, 1911. by John Eifreth
! Watkins.} sS6