Charleston, April 10, 1861.
You see we are still here and it is quite impossible to say
for how long a time. Your father has been with General Beauregard almost constantly
since we came, until yesterday, when General Beauregard requested him to go on
his staff, and since then he has been actively engaged in carrying out his
orders. I suppose you know the condition of things from the papers — that the
administration after their professions of peace have determined to re-inforce
the Fort at all risks, and we are in hourly expectation of the arrival of the
store-ship and the fleet sent to protect it. General Beauregard is only waiting
for the arrival of the troops from the country to make the attack on the Fort.
He is quite confident of the result, and God grant he may be right. We are all
anxious enough as you may suppose.
SOURCE: Louise Wigfall Wright, A Southern Girl in
’61, p. 35-6
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