April 12.
I was awakened about half past four, this morning, by the
booming of a cannon, and it has been going on steadily ever since — the firing
is constant and rapid — with what results we don't yet know. Your father has
gone to Morris's Island to obtain a report from the command there, and in order
to avoid the guns of Sumter he has taken Major Whiting's row boat, so as to run
in by the Inlets. I don't know how long he will be gone.
11 o'clock. The news we hear so far is good. No one killed
on Morris's Island so far — and a breach reported in Fort Sumter. The iron
battery is working well and the balls from Sumter have no effect on it. All is
excitement of the most painful kind. Another story is that the Harriet Lane which
was off the bar last night has been fired into and injured.
SOURCE: Louise Wigfall Wright, A Southern Girl in
’61, p. 38-9
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