Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61

CHAPTER I.

FORT MOULTRIE IN 1860.

The Garrison of Fort Moultrie.--Early Indications of Secession.--Situation of the Fort.--Edmund Ruffin and Robert Barnwell Rhett.--The Secretary of War.--Arms sent to the South.--Colonel Gardner.--Captain Foster ordered to Charleston Harbor.--The Officers at Fort Moultrie.--Communications with Northern Men by Cipher.--Proscription of Antislave...