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to Francis Pickens

Writes that South Carolina should not attack Fort Sumter without the orders of the Confederacy, since such an action would lead to confusion and panic. "I have been informed...that the troops in Charleston Harbor will assault Fort Sumpter within a...

GLC07087

Speech at the Tremont Temple

"The immediate cause of the present war is that your president would not sell them Fort Sumter... it is as true of Nations as of Individuals, that nothing so surely invites further agression, as to yield to unjust demands."

GLC07707

To the President of the United States....

Broadside with pledge of 67 Philadelphians to uphold the Union, one day after the fall of Fort Sumter.

GLC07439

Auburn Daily Democrat Extra re: Fort Sumter

Presidential Proclamation calling for 75,000 Militia to put down secession and reclaim "forts, places and property which have been seized from the Union."

GLC07408

Carte de visite of "Eine Scene auf der Batterie, No. 10."

Osborn stamp on verso. Ink inscription on verso: "Eine Scene auf der Batterie, No. 10." View of the promenade on the Charleston waterfront.

GLC04509.01