General Beauregard demands that Major Anderson surrender Fort Sumter immediately

In the late afternoon, three officers on General Beauregard's staff, including Colonel James Chesnut, Jr., a recent U. S. senator, arrived at Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, with a demand for the evacuation of the post.  Major Robert Anderson, in command, refused, but indicated that he would have to surrender in a few days regardless, due to lack of food.  He later offered, if not given other instructions, to evacuate on April 15, 1861.  (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America (Mansfield, OH: Estill & Co., 1866), 318-319.
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