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Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie
Abner Doubleday
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Now that the prejudices and bitter partisan feeling of the past are subsiding, it seems a fitting time to record the facts and incidents connected with the first conflict of the Rebellion. Of the eleven officers who took part in the events herein narrated, but four now survive. Before the hastening years shall have partially obliterated many circumstances from my memory, and while there is still an opportunity for conference and friendly criticism, I desire to make, from letters, memoranda, and documents in my possession, a statement which will embody my own recollections of the turbulent days of 1860 and 1861.
Now that the prejudices and bitter partisan feeling of the past are subsiding, it seems a fitting time to record the facts and incidents connected with the first conflict of the Rebellion. Of the eleven officers who took part in the events herein narrated, but four now survive. Before the hastening years shall have partially obliterated many circumstances from my memory, and while there is still an opportunity for conference and friendly criticism, I desire to make, from letters, memoranda, and documents in my possession, a statement which will embody my own recollections of the turbulent days of 1860 and 1861.
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Amidst all this turmoil, our little band of regulars kept their spirits up, and determined to fight it out to the last against any force that might be brought against them. The brick-layers, however, at work in Fort Sumter were considerably frightened. They held a meeting, and resolved to defend themselves, if attacked by the Charleston roughs, but not to resist any organized force.
On the 11th of December we had the good fortune to get our provisions from town without exciting observation. They had been lying there several days. It was afterward stated in the papers that the captain of the schooner was threatened severely for having brought them. On the same day the enemy began to build batteries at Mount Pleasant, and at the upper end of Sullivan's Island, guns having already been sent there. We. . . Read More
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Abner Doubleday is credited for inventing baseball, but really didn't. However, he did create the trolly car. He writes of his experiences leading up to the Civil War in South Carolina. It is a good first hand account looking back on the events.
Published in 1876, fifteen years after the fact, Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie by Abner Doubleday is a rare look at the preamble to the war that would cost so many American lives during five years of hell. This account has an advantage over others compiled and written by historians in t
4 stars out of 5 - I read a download from The Guttenberg Project on my iPad Mini during rare downtime in Key Largo and then on the flight back home. It's an excellent brief retelling of the events during the few months before South Carolina Secessionists started the Civil War by firing on Fort Sumte
VERY interesting viewpoint on the start of the Civil War, by a Union officer who was at the first conflict in it.
I was surprised to learn that it wasn't as brutal as I thought it would be; the Southerners let the families of the Union soldiers stationed in the fort leave before the fighting began.