Storia degli Stati Uniti dalla prima scoperta dell'America alla fine del 1902. B. Floyd, della Virginia, Buchanans Secre-involontario della guerra, che aveva inviato 115.000muschetti dal arsenalalone di Springfield. Fort Moltrie, nel porto di Charleston, washeld dal Maggiore Robert Anderson, di Ken-tucky, con una guarnigione di circa settanta uomini.Il dicembre 27th l'intero paese wasthilled, E il Sud invaghito, da thenews che nella notte precedente Andersonhad segretamente trasferito tutta la sua forza a Fort Sumter, un nuovo e str.onger lavoro nel centro del porto, lasciando spikedcannone e bruciando pistola-

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History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . fJ. B. Floyd, of Virginia, Buchanans Secre-tary of War, who had sent thither 115, 000muskets from the Springfield arsenalalone. Fort Moultrie, in Charleston harbor, washeld by Major Robert Anderson, of Ken-tucky, with a garrison of some seventy men.On December 27th the whole country wasthrilled, and the South enraged, by thenews that on the previous night Andersonhad secretly transferred his whole force toFort Sumter, a new and str.onger work inthe centre of the harbor, leaving spikedcannon and burning gun-carriages behindhim at Moultrie. The South Carolinamilitia at once occupied the deserted fort-ress with the other harbor fortifications, andbegan to put them into a state of defence.At Pensacola, Fla., Lieutenant Slemmer, by a movement similar to Ajidersons, heldFort Pickens. i86i] SECESSION 317 , The seizure of government property wenton through January and February. InLouisiana all the commissary stores wereconfiscated, and the revenue cutter Mc-Clelland surrendered. The mint at New. Anderson removing his Forces from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, December 26, 1861. 3i8. CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION [1861 Orleans, containing over half a million ingold and silver, was seized- More thanhalf of the regular army were stationedin Texas, under General Twiggs. In Feb-ruary, at the demand of a secessionist com-mittee of public safety, he Surrendered hisentire force, together with eighteen militaryposts. The troops were sent to a Gulf portand there detained. This wholesale seizure of governmentproperty, worth some $20, 000, 000, hasbrought down upon the South muchscathing rebuke. The conduct of Floyd, stabbing his country under the cloak ofa cabinet office, cannot bci too stronglycondemned; but with the seceding Statesthe case was different. Having (so theythought) established themselves as inde-pendent republics, they could not allowthe military works within their borders toremain in the h

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