fort Sumter, Charleston, S. C, December 27, 1860.
My dear Sir: I have only time to say that the
movement of my command to this place was made on my own responsibility and not
in obedience to orders from Washington. I did it because in my opinion it was
the best way of preventing the shedding of blood. God grant that the existing
condition of affairs may be adjusted without any resort to force.
Truly your friend,
Robert Anderson.
The Hon. Robert N. Gourdin.
SOURCE: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the
Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 128
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