Many of Abraham Lincoln’s advisors recommend abandoning Fort Sumter, but Lincoln considers a different course of action.
Category: South Carolina
No Alternative But a Surrender
Abraham Lincoln begins his first full day as president by receiving an ominous message from Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.
Fort Sumter Should be in Our Possession
South Carolinians want to seize Fort Sumter, but they need the new Confederate government to back them up.
The General Tendency is to Hostile Measures
South Carolinians and the Federal garrison in Charleston Harbor settle into an uneasy truce; for how long, nobody knows.
The Star of the West Under Fire
The merchant vessel Star of the West arrives at Charleston Harbor to relieve the Federal garrison at Fort Sumter. But the South Carolinians have other ideas.
A Gloomy Foreboding of Impending Disaster
The new year opens with South Carolina commissioners responding to President James Buchanan’s refusal to withdraw the Federal troops from Fort Sumter.