Headquarters, 1st January, 1861.
Be it known, to all concerned, that a state of things exists
which makes it my duty to warn all public vessels of the United States or any
vessel bearing aid and supplies to the garrison at Fort Sumter, or in any way
directed to exercise any authority whatever in the waters of South Carolina,
that they are hereby forbid to do so, and to abstain from entering especially
the harbor of Charleston.
Given under my hand and the seal of the State, the day and
year aforesaid:
(Signed)
F. W. Pickens,
Gov. amd Comm’r in
Ch'f in and over
the State of South
Carolina."
SOURCE: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the
Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 138
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