MONTGOMERY, April 11,
1861.
General BEAUREGARD, Charleston:
Do not desire needlessly to bombard Fort Sumter. If Major
Anderson will state the time at which, as indicated by him, he will evacuate,
and agree that in the mean time he will not use his guns against us unless ours
should be employed against Fort Sumter, you are authorized thus to avoid the
effusion of blood. If this or its equivalent be refused, reduce the fort as
your judgment decides to be most practicable.
L. P. WALKER.
SOURCE: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of
the Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 424; 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. 301.
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