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December 27, 1860 - Major Robert Anderson to Secretary John B. Floyd

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Reports of Maj. Robert Anderson, U.S. Army, of the evacuation of Fort Moultrie, S.C.

[Telegram.]

CHARLESTON,
December 27, 1860.

Honorable J. B. FLOYD,
Secretary of War:

The telegram is correct. I abandoned Fort Moultrie because I was certain that if attacked my men must have been sacrificed, and the command of the harbor lost. I spiked the guns and destroyed the carriages to keep the guns from being used against us. If attacked, the garrison would never have surrendered without a fight.

ROBERT ANDERSON,
Major, First Artillery.


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