President Lincoln gives South Carolina notice that he intends to resupply Fort Sumter

Captain Theodore Talbot, USA, and Robert S. Chew of the State Department met in Charleston with Governor Pickens of South Carolina and General Beauregard late in the evening to deliver President Lincoln's message that he intended federal ships to provision Fort Sumter.  Talbot requested that he join Anderson's command or, failing that, meet with him.  Both requests were refused and Talbot returned with Chew to Washington that night.  (By John Osborne) 
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Major Anderson and his men evacuate Fort Sumter and sail for New York

Major Anderson and his command evacuated the battered fort in the afternoon.  A salute was fired to the federal flag as it was lowered.  Unfortunately, a mishap during the firing caused an explosion the killed Privates Daniel Hough immediately and Edward Gallway, who died April 19, 1861.  The Charleston steamer Isabel took off the garrison and transferred it the next morning to the S.S. Baltic outside the harbor.  The Baltic then sailed for New York.  (By John Osborne) 
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Southern journalist urges the South to reclaim the "Star-Spangled Banner" as a southern patriotic song

The Charleston correspondent of the Richmond Examiner urges "let us never surrender to the North the noble song, the 'Star-Spangled Banner.'  It is southern in its origin; in sentiment, poetry, and song; in its association with chivalrous deeds, it is ours ..."  The song had been widely featured at numerous rallies in the North in the past few weeks as a patriotic and Union-supporting song.  (By John Osborne)
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Petition by Juniors, Dickinson College, to suspend classes for George Washington's Birthday, February 22, 1861

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Herman M. Johnson Presidential Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

Little Rock, Arkansas (Fanning's, 1853)

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Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 192.
LITTLE ROCK, city, seat of justice of Pulaski co., and capital of the state of Arkansas, is situated on a rock, or bluff, on the south side of Arkansas river, at the head of steamboat navigation, except during high water, when Fort Gibson 1,100 miles further up, may be reached. It is 300 miles by the river from the Mississippi, and 1,065 miles from W. The town is well laid out, and has the usual number of churches and other public buildings, among which may be mentioned the statehouse, courthouse, and penitentary. The population in 1840, was 3,000; in 1850, 4,138.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States....

Cumberland County Courthouse, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, circa 1843

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Present courthouse built in 1846-46
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Civic Club of Carlisle, (Harrisburg, PA: J. Horace McFarland Company, 1907), 6.
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First permanent courthouse in the town, built in 1766, destroyed by fire in March 1845.

Major Anderson accepts a ceasefire and prepares to evacuate Fort Sumter

After a thirty-six hour bombardment, Major Anderson accepted a ceasefire in the early afternoon and, after an agreement was made largely on Anderson's earlier terms, made preparations to evacuate Fort Sumter the following day.  His garrison had suffered no fatalities during the shelling, though an estimated 3000 rounds had been fired at the fort and it was essentially in ruins.  The evacuation proceeded as planned, the next day.   (By John Osborne)
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Austin Blair (American National Biography)

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Robert W. Burg, "Blair, Austin," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00109.html.
In 1854, at the close of his first two-year term as prosecuting attorney of Jackson County, Blair rejoined the vanguard of third-party politics when he helped form the Republican party. He was a key participant in the party's organizational meetings in Jackson, Kalamazoo, and Detroit, and he helped draft the party's first platform. Fittingly, he was elected to the state senate later that year.
American National Biography Online

Austin Blair (Congressional Biographical Directory)

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“Blair, Austin,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000521.
BLAIR, Austin, a Representative from Michigan; born in Caroline, Tompkins County, N.Y., February 8, 1818; attended the common schools, Cazenovia Seminary, and Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.; was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1837; studied law in Oswego; was admitted to the bar in Tioga County, N.Y., in 1841; moved to Michigan and settled in Eaton Rapids, where he commenced the practice of his profession in 1842; county clerk of Eaton County; moved to Jackson, Mich., in 1844; elected to the State house of representatives in 1845; delegate to the Free
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present

Beauregard again demands that Major Anderson surrender Fort Sumter immediately

In the early morning hours, after he became convinced that federal ships were approaching Charleston to relieve Fort Sumter, General Beauregard sent members of his staff to again request immediate surrender of Major Anderson.  He also gave them authority, if refused, to inform Anderson that he would order his batteries to open fire "in one hour from this time."  This they did, at 3:20 a.m., and immediately left the fort.  Fire commenced on Sumter as promised, one hour later.  (By John Osborne)
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