STEAMSHIP BALTIC,
OFF SANDY HOOK,
April 18, [1861] – 10.30 a.m. –
via New York.
Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the
quarters were entirely burned, the main gates destroyed by fire, the gorge
walls seriously injured, the magazine surrounded by flames, and its door closed
from the effects of heat, four barrels and three cartridges of powder only
being available, and no provisions remaining but pork, I accepted terms of
evacuation offered by General Beauregard, being the same offered by him on the
11th instant, prior to the commencement of hostilities, and marched out of the
fort Sunday afternoon, the 14th instant, with colors flying and drums beating,
bringing away company and private property, and saluting my flag with fifty
guns.
ROBERT ANDERSON,
Major, First
Artillery, Commanding.
Hon. S. CAMERON,
Secretary of War, Washington.
SOURCES: 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. 12; Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the
Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 449.
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