REMINISCENCES OF FORTS SUMTER AND MOULTRIE -- INTRODUCTION. -- CONTENTS. -- 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 Antislavery Men in Charleston. -- Position of Charleston Merchants -- The Secession Leaders only prepared to resist Coercion. -- The Mob proves Unmanageable. -- General Scott's Letter to the President, October 29th. -- The Situation in November. -- No Instructions from Washington. -- Colonel Gardner's Report to General Wool -- CHAPTER II. -- PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENSE. -- Defeat of Captain Seymour's Expedition on the Ashley. -- Mayor Macbeth's Explanation. -- Captain Foster's Work on Fort Moultrie. -- Governor Gist convenes the South Carolina Legislature. -- Creation of a Standing Army. -- Arrival of Masons from Baltimore. -- Situation of Fort Sumter. -- A Dramatic Incident. -- Secretary Floyd's Action. -- Horace Greeley's Advocacy of the Right of Secession -- The Situation November 18th -- CHAPTER III. -- PRELIMINARY MOVEMENTS OF THE SECESSIONISTS. -- Arrival of Major Anderson. -- Huger's Opposition to a Premature Assault on Fort Moultrie -- Anderson's Report to the Secretary of War. -- Active Preparations by the South Carolinians. -- Meeting of Congress. -- Attempts at Compromise. -- Secession Batteries at Mount Pleasant. -- Arrival of Major Buell with Written Orders. -- Vain Efforts to Strengthen Castle Pinckney. -- Northern Opinion. -- Public Meeting in Philadelphia. -- CHAPTER IV. -- THE REMOVAL TO FORT SUMTER. -- Passage of the Secession Ordinance.

Governor Pickens's Proclamation. -- Judge Petigru's Visit to Fort Moultrie. -- Floyd's Treachery. -- Yancey's Lectures in the North. -- The Removal to Sumter. -- CHAPTER V. -- THE FIRST OVERT ACT. -- The New Quarters. -- Seizure of Castle Pinckney by Charleston Troops. -- Raising the Flag at Fort Sumter. -- The Sergeant's Daughter. -- Major Anderson's Position. -- The Charleston Troops take Fort Moultrie -- A Military Problem. -- Condition of Fort Sumter. -- Governor Pickens's Commission. -- A New Outrage -- CHAPTER VI. -- EFFECT OF ANDERSON'S MOVEMENT. -- President Buchanan Aroused. -- Excitement in Charleston. -- The Situation at the Beginning of 1861 -- Governor Pickens's War Measures -- "My heart was never in this War " -- CHAPTER VII. -- THE "STAR OF THE WEST." -- Promise of Succor. -- Fatal Delay. -- A Contumacious Chaplain. -- Visit from our Ladies. -- Governor Pickens's Cabinet. -- Appearance of the Star of the West -- The Vessel fired upon from Morris Island and Fort Moultrie. -- Major Anderson's Protest. -- Governor Pickens's Reply. -- CHAPTER VIII. -- A RESORT TO DIPLOMACY. -- Major Anderson's Proposed Diplomatic Negotiations. -- Defensive Preparations. -- Changes in the Cabinet. -- Meade's Defection. -- Anecdote of Governor Pickens. -- Battery at Cummings Point. -- Soldiers' Families Removed. -- A Threatening Letter. -- Confederate Visitors to the Fort. -- Organization of the Confederate Government -- CHAPTER IX. -- THE CRISIS AT HAND. -- South Carolina's Grievances. -- Inauguration of President Lincoln. -- Determination to Re-enforce Sumter. -- An Audacious Proposal. -- The Shannon. -- New Rebel Batteries Unmasked. -- Formal Notice of Bombardment. -- CHAPTER X. -- THE BOMBARDMENT. -- The First Shot. -- Defective Guns. -- John Carmody's Exploit. -- Destructive Effects of the Bombardment. -- Burning of the Officers' Quarters.

Terrific Conflagration -- CHAPTER XI. -- THE EVACUATION. -- Senator Wigfall's Volunteer Mission. -- Terms of Evacuation Settled. -- The Question of Casualties on the Other Side. -- Salute to the Flag. -- Occupation of the Fort by Southern Troops. -- Embarkation. -- Welcome in New York. -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX.