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| March 13, 1861 - Major Robert Anderson to Adjutant-General Samuel Cooper
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No. 71.]
FORT SUMTER, S.C., March 13, 1861.
Colonel S. COOPER,
Adjutant-General U.S. Army:
COLONEL: I have the honor to report that we see only a small party engaged this morning raising the parapet of the work usually alluded to as the mortar battery, near Fort Johnson. Yesterday afternoon about a hundred blank cartridges were fired from Fort Moultrie, on what occasion we know not. This firing showed us that all the guns are in position on that work. Our sick-list is slightly on the increase; five are reported sick this morning.
I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
ROBERT ANDERSON,
Major, First Artillery, Commanding.
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