Alabama's secession commissioner to Kentucky, Stephen Fowler Hale, wrote to Kentucky governor Beriah Magoffin urging him to bring his slave state out of the Union.  His letter contained dire prediction of ruin for the South saying that the new Republican government would initiate a "San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations and her wives and daughters to pollution and violation to gratify the lust of half-civilized Africans."  (By John Osborne) 

On January 19, 1861, the commander of Fort Sumter, Major Robert Anderson, requested that Governor Pickens of South Carolina allow the evacuation of the forty-two women and children from the fort and their departure by steamer for New York.  Pickens complied with courtesy and on February 3, 1861, the dependents sailed for New York aboard the S.S. Marion, passing the fort and their men on their way out of the harbor.  (By John Osborne) 

On January 19, 1861, the commander of Fort Sumter, Major Robert Anderson, requested that Governor Pickens of South Carolina allow the evacuation of the forty-two women and children from the fort and their departure by steamer for New York.  Pickens complied with courtesy and on February 1, 1861, the dependents transferred from the fort to the S.S. Marion and sailed out of harbor at noon two days later.  (By John Osborne)