President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

Davis immediately instructed Beauregard that under no circumstances was he to allow provisions to reach Fort Sumter. The Pocahontas, with 95 men and six cannons, departed Norfolk, Va., heading south.

BEAUREGARD has expressed perfect confidence, after viewing the fortifications in the Charleston harbor, that Fort Sumter can be reduced. He says that it is only a question of time. Advertisement ...