charleston, December 27, 1860.
The telegram is correct. I abandoned Fort Moultrie because I
was certain that, if attacked, my men must have been sacrificed, and the
command of the harbor lost. I spiked the guns and destroyed the carriages to
keep the guns from being used against us. If attacked, the garrison would never
have surrendered without a fight.
(Signed)
Robert Anderson,
Major First Artillery.
Hon J. B. Floyd,
Secretary of War.
SOURCE: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the
Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 145
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