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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Daily Evening Express 1861
• Subjects: National; Charleston; South Carolina; Star of the West; Charleston Courier; Morris Island; Fort Sumpter; Fort Moultrie; Andrew Pickens; Major Robert Anderson; correspondence; civil war
• Online Access: http://digital.libraries.psu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/pabooknews/id/371

Details of the on the Star of the West by a South Carolina garrison stationed at Fort Moultrie and Morris Island are reported. Included is correspondence between Major Anderson, at Fort Sumpter, and Gov. Pickens regarding the attack. Pickens considers any attempt to reinforce Anderson's troops...