Sunday, March 29, 2015

Governor Francis W. Pickens to Colonel James J. Pettigrew, December 27, 1860

Headquarters,
charleston, December 27, 1860
To Colonel J. J. Pettigrew,

Sir: You are ordered to take possession of Castle Pinckney. You are to act with the greatest discretion and prudence, and to let it be known that you take possession in the name of the Governor of South Carolina, and in consequence of the extraordinary orders executed last night in relation to Fort Moultrie, and with a view at present to prevent further destruction of public property, and as a measure of safety also.

(Signed)
F. W. Pickens.

SOURCE: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 113

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