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that aa behind OF I 1 ch e a HI hia being a a more or I 1 lesa full call true and particular ar account of on of I 1 in tha racist is im enton events t s of history aa related re d by a era ers cloua dona 1 participant 0 lou IOU know ken what hat started the civil marl war asked the J I 1 genial octogenarian for F I 1 whom I 1 had set up three L jj r drinks drink and who was wait mail jn ing for a fourth the firing on dort E ort 1 sumter but you yoo don I 1 know how rort fort sumter hup hap id lo 10 be a fired on no I 1 do dan t 11 he looked fit at his 1 I 1 a empty glass I 1 abbass know he be could tell auy number ot if im 1 Po probable babl loch larna and ad I 1 we was acri curious 8 to know low how long a bow he would cold draw 1 an fn that instance ahe I 1 I 1 ara m would I 1 cost in dalak 11 lp mt another aber drink but I 1 ordered d ire it it tt IN hen bon the old man saw it safe 1 in it bis I 1 to tumbler he told the story at the time major anderson An derbon was its pent up in lueter 1 I who nho land had b been an sergeant 1 in the united states state rely army and ad deserted toj to join ol 01 the confederates was nas in charleston alt I 1 eta went to general Beam beauregard and ad told him v hat experience I 1 had had bad in ordnance he told me I 1 imas was juat J t the man loan lie he wanted there wit was a b big I 1 abl bluff off going so on to compel president lincoln to order the of the tort fort it lee has been supposed since that do sum ter was fired on to the war thais all bosh a they wanted mulled to fett as man mits states notes as possible out 0 of the union thinking that wh nearly marly all were ere out the rest would mould be diflo allowed d to go gc peaceably so was general central mild thata a that a cliot would ld be fired fro from fort moultrie th that t he be would only permit one gun go to be and ad arranged that that one coulon couldn t be fired except by from a house in alik he be ate and slept if a bombardment was to take place he wanted to tire fire file he first shot hursie so he told me mal that lie held me ibe map responsible him for far the electric i instrument strom t I 1 connected ted with the gun go alie T 1 0 house was one of those big old tit mansions tor for which aich charleston is famous and there them was as plenty of room ailed I 1 had three rooms moms f for or my family be id aldes it the sunroom ma irmina as a it me was called an order wai mal issued that no on one shield in 10 into that room except I 1 my sef the general explained to we me that if the gun me was fired without an or fer dr der fr from the president of the co coffed mincy cracy he would mould 11 lilt to he 1 be I 1 alred I d it of af it ft fiat if it if we would old like likely brine as I 1 on a w war m and rd since lure it the north it had it all it the tie I 1 food it fro growing whiff raim country ry and ad hatim bf form the result would in the end be comila abe disastrous to I 1 t the he south at the no bame Is time lie he dida didn I 1 know himself all that was waa going on mul and it if he recell cd an te ler by I 1 telegram in to fire lie he wished abed ta be 1 ID a position to obey 01 it instant i W so some 0 contingency might art arise by wh which I 1 eh it would mould be a diplomatic mill adan I 1 tage to if fire if the first gun gart bea before e major anderson fired though thong the pro babil aties ere orera helm helming ingi on the other side the confess confederate is government at rinat the time preferred that the european potters should place the blame on the united state tor for beginning a war 1 I kept the key of that g sunroom mom in my y own pocket and no human buman being could get int into it except myself there was mas no be hole by by which lach even a cut cat or a dog I 1 could get in the only opening was a u hlodon ind sash down doa lew fair inches from the top which hach I 1 lowered to ad mit it air ft ell alp air despite all these if tlona one day any neill while I 1 was reading a newspaper in my filing quarters all of a sudden I 1 I 1 licali a cobalt the sudden genera general had bad jut just 1 come 1 an fn and ad he and ad I 1 met in the hall bull if lie was aa a white nhit I 1 as a sheet and I 1 reckon I 1 was wag pretty pale myself we both re ran outside and saw a tend cloud of smoke over a moultrie le the go guu had been bee fired 7 1 I pondered he how it could hae bale hap varied but the general didn dian I 1 seem beem to care cam bow it waa since it had bad nap hap gerud he went out at as aa fast he as he be could go to the telegraph miles to in form farm the government tit nt richmond that the gun had been fired find without hla him order it no was supposed opposed abiden tally well 3 sou know knew the man result t the firing of that gun go fired the north arth me as well nell the people of the free states atut t wild and I 1 from rem th that I 1 moment the fate of the confederacy cary we ana settled our ports were note blockaded so that one could get f in I 1 I 1 to or I 1 nothing from alroid 1 ad abile w hile the northern people could make a or glow what they needed and ad what but they could I 1 produce the them selves they could buy u wherever be ever it was to be had bad cheapest chia choa pest but lord how a we did fislid I 1 A As for far the co con federate 9 govern care ment it would wouldn t t do tor for thorn them to III ghe a 1 general beauregard wanted to fire fim the first shot list out that the loan gun had been fired by alt datke take in if tho first pl th such a at statement world t be believed and ad if it were it would t do any my good the saw that they had a nar on it their 1 I ir hands hand instead of peace ical I 1 ful I 1 essiri which alrh has nhat tury they J had aimed aligned at and went into it for all they were worth any anyway my it helped get the son southern them at states abelt that at were heal best tating stig out of the union the old man stopped short in hla his story but you haven I 1 told I 1 said what limit fired the mut eun ahmen t 11 I 1 he be looked at hla his glass which chich was empty I 1 ordered it filled and he concluded when I 1 went into the gun roo room there them set sat a moina alieu 1 I went into at I 1 the sunroom th there e m sat at a mouse as 1 looking ag ery cry much ludi amed of blin himself self he a had gone up sale onto the electric key and his foght weight had fired filed the gun thata that brought on t the most fratricidal war the world r d has eer or known know 1910 watern union A oft off 11 the thirtieth of may return let at is grateful un t tion remember it ila dead dd nd ml with if fiord 1 offering d demorat dee rate the is tomb ted of if is fien fallen he beroe let 6 alir bItI beautiful fid I culton it es be perpetuated until said the dy day shelf hall be beckma hh haij owed IJ I 1 in the hu artory of if f freedom d gen ga job john A lm la I 1 an |
