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

Click for full-sized scanned image 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. (To view this page in its Source Category, click HERE)