John B. Floyd to Major Robert Anderson, December 27, 1860

War Department,

adjutant-general's Office,

December 27, 1860.

Intelligence has reached here this morning that you have abandoned Fort Moultrie, spiked your guns, burned the carriages and gone to Fort Sumter.

It is not believed, because there is no order for any such movement. Explain the meaning of this report.

(Signed)

J. B. Floyd,

Secretary of War.

SOURCE: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 145