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February 18, 1861 - Major Robert Anderson to Adjutant General Samuel Cooper

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Union Correspondence, etc.

No. 48.]
FORT SUMTER, S.C., February 18, 1861.

Colonel S. COOPER, Adjutant-General:

COLONEL: I have the honor to report that we did not observe that any work was being carried on within view yesterday except by a small party of negroes, engaged in extending the covered way from the bomb-proof battery in the direction of the steamboat landing near it.

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

ROBERT ANDERSON,
Major, First Artillery, Commanding.

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