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Title: The boys of '61; or, Four years of fighting. Personal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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Louisiana, Hagar weeping and mourning for her child, andthe planter, with the price of blood in his pocket, be receivedin any parlor in Charleston, or made Governor of the State!There were patriarchs in the convention which carried SouthCarolina out of the Union, who were urged on to treason bythe women of the South. Ishmael would not rise in insurrec-tion, even if his brother Isaac and father Abraham went towar. 1864.) SOUTH CAROLINA BEFORE THE WAR. 453 Said another daughter of South Carolina : — Arming the State will keep the negroes in check. They are arrantcowards, those dear dark friends of ours. (?) Some of you can remem-ber how in 22 they would shrink away at the gleam of their masterssword as he armed for the nightly patrol, and the creaking of thehorsemans saddles as they paraded the streets sent them hiding inevery hole and corner. * Isaac was eager for the fray; he burned to fight the Yankees,Hence the consummation of the treason. ♦ Charleston Mercury, November 9, 1860.
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454 THE BOYS OF 61. (Feb. CHAPTER XXVIII. SUMTER. Port Sumter was evacuated by the Rebels and occupied bythe Union troops on the 18th of February, 1865; but beforeentering upon the events of that ever-memorable morning itwill give breadth and color to the picture to glance at thescenes witnessed there at the beginning and during the Re-bellion. On the 17th of December, 1860, Governor Pickens sent astrictly confidential letter to President Buchanan. To spare the effusion of blood/ said he, which no human powermay be able to prevent, I earnestly beg your immediate considerationof all the points I call your attention to I would most respect-fully, and from a sincere devotion to the public peace, request that youwill allow me to send a small force, not exceeding twenty-five men andan officer, to take possession of Fort Sumter immediately, in order togive a feeling of safety to the community. There are no United Statestroops in that fort whatever, or perhaps only four or five at present,be

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