Headquarters,
December 30, 1860.
In reply to Major Anderson's request, made this morning
verbally through First Lieutenant Snyder from Fort Sumter, I hereby order and
direct that free permission shall be given to him to send the ladies and camp
women from Fort Sumter, with their private effects, to any portion of
Sullivan's Island, and that entire protection shall be extended to them. It is
also agreed that the mails may be sent over to the officers at Fort Sumter by
their boats, and that all the ladies of Captain Foster's family shall be
allowed to pass, with their effects and the effects of any kind belonging to
Captain Foster, from the Mills House to Fort Sumter, and the kindest regard
shall be paid to them. Of course, Lieutenant Meade's private effects can be
taken possession of, but for the present there shall be no communication of any
other kind allowed from the city to the fort, or any transportation of arms or
ammunition, or any supplies to the fort; and this is done with a view to
prevent irregular collisions, and to spare the unnecessary effusion of blood.
F. W. Pickens.
SOURCE: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the
Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 117-8
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