FORT SUMTER, S. C., April 11, 1861.
GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your
communication demanding the evacuation of this fort, and to say, in reply
thereto, that it is a demand with which I regret that my sense of honor, and of
my obligations to my Government, prevent my compliance. Thanking you for the
fair, manly, and courteous terms proposed, and for the high compliment paid me,
I am, general, very
respectfully, your obedient servant,
ROBERT ANDERSON,
Major, First
Artillery, Commanding.
Brig. Gen. BEAUREGARD,
Commanding Provisional Army.
SOURCE: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of
the Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 423; The War of
the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 1 (Serial No. 1), p. 13.
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