Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2) Mp3 audio cd -

MP3 Audio CD. Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2) CHAPTER I. FORT MOULTRIE IN 1860. The Garrison of Fort Moultrie.--Early Indications of Secession.--Situation of the Fort.--Edmund Ruffin and Robert Barnwell Rhett.--The Secretary of War.--Arms sent to the South.--Colonel Gardner.--Captain Foster ordered to Charleston Harbor.--The Officers at Fort Moultrie.--Communications with Northern Men by Cipher.--Proscription of Antislavery Men in Charleston.--Position of Charleston Merchants.--The Secession Leaders only prepared to resist Coercion.--The Mob proves unmanageable.--General Scott's Letter to the President, October 29.--The Situation in November.--No Instructions from Washington.--Colonel Gardner's Report to General Wool. The summer of 1860 found me stationed at the head-quarters of the First United States Artillery at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina. I was captain of Company E, and second in command to Brevet Colonel John L. Gardner, who was lieutenant-colonel of the regiment. The regimental band and Captain Truman Seymour's company (H) also formed part of the garrison. The other forts were unoccupied, except by the ordnance-sergeants in charge.