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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), First shot of the war was fired in the air. (search)
ch talk during the bombardment of the fort, and some days after Major Anderson surrendered. At that time and place I only heard that Lieutena1861, Fort Sumter was formally surrendered and evacuated by Major Robert Anderson. Governor Pickens and General Beauregard, accompanied by their staff officers, were present. Major Anderson and his officers, save Captain Doubleday, were introduced to Governor Pickens. Among the United States navy, to whom, at his request, was presented, by Major Anderson, a piece of the garrison flag, which was shared with the writere day of the surrender, the writer was accosted by a soldier of Major Anderson's command, who said: you can gather as many pieces as you want ny, to whom General Beauregard sent the order to open fire upon Major Anderson. This article was, no doubt, published to some extent throue firing of the first gun on the fort, and of its evacuation by Major Anderson, and of its gallant defense, has been often told. A thrilling
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Robert Edward Lee. (search)
ex-Secretaries without creating any hysterical excitement in the army, and so that of General Samuel Cooper, a New Yorker, who became adjutant-general and ranking general in the Confederate army, also hangs in the War Department. A pretty incident showing the change of Northern feeling on this subject is related by Mr. Charles Hallock, a Brooklyn gentleman, in a recent communication to one of the Richmond papers. In 1868, he bought a portrait of Lee, by a notable Richmond artist, named Anderson, and offered it to be placed on view at the annual exhibition of the Brooklyn Art Loan Association. It was contemptuosly refused, with the remark that Lee should have been hung as a traitor years before. But note the sequel, which I give in the narrator's own language: Now as indicating the rapid amelioration of public sentiment which soon followed, and the softening of the acerbities of 1861-65, I will state that in 1875, only ten years after the war, I presented this picture to the L