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| December 30, 1860 - Captain Frederick Humphreys to Colonel John Cunningham
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 Click for full-sized scanned image  Click for full-sized scanned image Reports of and correspondence with Ordnance Storekeeper F.C. Humphreys, U.S. Army, in reference to seizure of Charleston Arsenal.
CHARLESTON ARSENAL, S.C.,
December 30, 1860.
SIR: I am constrained to comply with your demand for the surrender of this arsenal, from the fact that I have no force for its defense. I do so, however, solemnly protesting against the illegality of this measure in the name of my Government.
I also demand, as a right, that I be allowed to salute my flag, before lowering it, with one gun for each State now in the Union (32), and that my command be allowed to occupy the quarters assigned them until instructions can be obtained from the War Department.
Very respectfully,
F.C. HUMPHREYS,
Military Storekeeper Ordnance, U.S. Army.
to Colonel JOHN CUNNINGHAM,
Seventeenth Regiment Inf., S.C.M.
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