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Title: A history of the United States for schools; including a concise account of the discovery of America, the colonization of the land, and the revolutionary war
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Mowry, William A. (William Augustus), 1829-1917 Mowry, Arthur May, 1862-1900
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Silver, Burdett and co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Abraham Lincoln.(Copyright, 1891, by M. P. Rice. From a negative made in 1864.)
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i86i) THE FALL OF SUMTER. 289 obeyed in all sections of our territory, and that it was his purposeto collect the public revenues at the ports of the seceded States,and to recover the forts and arsenals which belonged to the Federalgovernment in those States. 550. The Attack on Fort Sumter. — Fort Sumter, opposite Charleston,was held by about one hundred soldiers under command of MajorRobert Anderson. The Confederatesgathered a force of five or six thousandmen under command of General G. T.Beauregard, and occupied the other fortsand batteries around Charleston Har-bor. They erected strong earthworks,and put many pieces of artillery in posi-tion to reduce Fort Sumter. Beaure-gard sent a demand to Major Andersonto surrender, or rather to withdraw fromthe fort. Major Anderson refused tocomply. On the morning of April 12th,1861, fire was opened by the Confeder-ates from all the batteries facing FortSumter. It was merely a question howlong one hundred men could hold outagainst this overpo

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