Sunday, August 23, 2015

John Tyler to Governor Francis W. Pickens, February 7, 1861

Washington, 7th February.

To Governor Pickens: Can my voice reach you? If so, do not attack Fort Sumter. You know my sincerity. The Virginia delegates here earnestly unite.

(Signed)
john Tyler.

SOURCE: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 246

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