Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie

Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie

Abner Doubleday, career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War (1819-1893)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- INTRODUCTION

-03- FORT MOULTRIE IN 1860

-04- PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENSE

-05- PRELIMINARY MOVEMENTS OF THE SECESSIONISTS

-06- THE REMOVAL TO FORT SUMTER

-07- THE FIRST OVERT ACT

-08- EFFECT OF ANDERSON'S MOVEMENT

-09- THE STAR OF THE WEST

-10- A RESORT TO DIPLOMACY

-11- THE CRISIS AT HAND

-12- THE BOMBARDMENT

-13- THE EVACUATION

-14- APPENDIX

-15- FOOTNOTES