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February 28, 1861 - Adjutant-General Samuel Cooper to Major Robert Anderson

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Union Correspondence, etc.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, February 28, 1861.

Major R. ANDERSON,
First Artillery, Commanding Fort Sumter, Charleston, S.C.:

SIR: I acknowledge the receipt of your several communications, including No. 55, of the 25th instant. The Secretary of War directs me to send you the inclosed slip, and to say that the Peace Convention yesterday agreed upon the basis of a settlement of our political difficulties, which was reported to Congress. The Secretary entertains the hope that nothing will occur now of a hostile character.

I am, sir, &c.,

S. COOPER,
Adjutant-General.

[Inclosure.]

The Commissioners from the Southern Confederacy are expected to arrive here before the close of this week. They are accredited to the incoming administration, and pending the efforts to negotiate, nothing will be done calculated to disturb the public peace.

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