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February 22, 1861 - Major Robert Anderson to Adjutant-General Samuel Cooper
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Union Correspondence, etc.
No. 52.]
FORT SUMTER, S.C., February 22, 1861.
Colonel S. COOPER, Adjutant-General:
COLONEL: I have the honor to report that they are forming three embrasures in the work near the bomb-proof battery. We are, as I write [12 m.], firing a national salute from our battery in honor of the day.
I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
ROBERT ANDERSON,
Major, First Artillery, Commanding.
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