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February 10, 1861 - Major Robert Anderson to Colonel Samuel Cooper

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Union Correspondence, etc.

No. 40.]
FORT SUMTER, S.C., February 10, 1861.
(Received A.G.O., February 13.)

Colonel S. COOPER, Adjutant-General:

COLONEL: I have the honor to report everything quiet last night. This morning [Sunday] I see a few men at work, apparently finishing the upper iron work on the lope of the bomb-proof battery. Three large cannon are visible this morning in the huge embrasures of the battery referred to yesterday, near the bomb-proof battery. We are preparing a few mines in front of and to the right and left of the entrance of our work. I would thank the honorable Secretary to give me instructions in reference to vessels bearing the flags of foreign governments in the event of the commencement of hostilities. I presume that no vessel should pass the fort.

I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

ROBERT ANDERSON,
Major, First Artillery, Commanding.

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