Original sentence: " The call for 75,000 troops triggered four additional slave states to declare their secession from the Union and join the Confederacy.Abner Doubleday fired a shot at the Ironclad Battery at Cummings Point, but he missed.Army garrison retired to Fort Sumter to join Major Robert Anderson.As small craft were sent toward the fort with supplies, the artillery fire deterred them and they pulled back.On December 27, an assault force of 150 men seized the Union-occupied Castle Pinckney fortification, in the harbor close to downtown Charleston, capturing 24 guns and mortars, while the small U.The Confederates targeted these with heated shot (cannonballs heated red hot in a furnace), starting fires that could have proven more dangerous to the men than explosive artillery shells.senator, had been observing the battle and decided that this indicated the fort had endured enough
Edited sentence: " The governors of other states still in the Union were equally unsupportive.Abner Doubleday fired a shot at the Ironclad Battery at Cummings Point.As landing craft were sent toward the fort with supplies, the artillery fire deterred them and they pulled back.He missed.On December 27, an assault force of 150 men seized the Union-occupied Castle Pinckney fortification, in the harbor close to downtown Charleston, capturing 24 guns and mortars without bloodshed.The Confederates targeted these with heated shot (cannonballs heated red hot in a furnace), starting fires that could prove more dangerous to the men than explosive artillery shells.The call for 75,000 troops triggered four additional slave states to declare their secession from the Union and join the Confederacy.senator, had been observing the battle and decided that this indicated the fort had had enough punishment