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An Incident At Fort Sumpter

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Day
18
Month
January
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tliö Baliiiuore Am mean lias tho fi.lluv iijj Kiory. One uf Ai' Bnl:iinnreana who re' cor.tly retunietl funn Kort Sumptar detu Is in iiiipres.-iive incident thut look lace tlici-o on Miij.ir Andeivsou taking posses.-iiou. It w kmiwn that tho An.ti-u-un flag, brought nway from Fort JIi'ulli ie, as l'uised al tiuiuplcr jiriM-i.-t-'ly at nöon, on tílé 27tli uliiaiu, Ibiitilic tiaduuts oí thut 'nag-r;,iïii]g' havo mt b:eii relatud. it was n sctiio thut vmII bu a lueTuoiublt) reiniiii.-ueiioo in tho livuh ot ituite wti ■ v i Hitseed it. A slioit tuin! buloro iMMin Mtjur Ander.-dii iisaeintíUd tliu wtiole ui lus linie torue, wilh ihu woikiiieii einplo. ed on llio luit, urouiid tliu loot of the fl;it-laö. The nalioiial eiis'gn was atUicnod to the cord, and Major Anüerhou, luiiOing tliu cuid i.f' the Iiuü.s in hia hands, knelt roVeiently down. i'hu uffioer, .soldier.-", and man dusterad aniund, tnany of tbeoi n" iheir kuues, iilldöL-ply iiiipreifed with the ilamnity I of the bcöiio. 'J !ie uhaplain m.Mti uil Bttrnet-t pruvur - sncli ui ppul lor siippovt, enouupugeiimot auc inwoy as una wuuld iimke bo lelt that 'AlanV cxircniity i üml'a opportuoity, As tlio earnet, tsuluujii uords uf the speaker cea.sd, und ihu men responded anión, with a íerveney that perlmpri thev had mvei' beine XpanericKl, Mitjor Andöiuon drevv the 'títalSpangldd JJa:üier' up Ui the l"[ of lliu staff, the hand broke out uilh the natioiial air ui 'Hail Coluiiibia, and inud and ex altan t cbeere, repeated aiiin and uguin, wra given hy the offi er.-, Bohiiera and uorkmen. 'lf,' said the nai'ratiT, 'S'itith i 'nrolir a had iit thut mineiit attuoked the lort. ihf'e won ld have been UO hehitutiojl upon the part oí uny man within it abuut defeiiding 'hut flatr."

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Old News
Michigan Argus