Garland Globe | 1908-05-16 | Page 7 | Sumter's First Shot Saved

SUMTER'S FIRST SHOT SAVED. Surgeon Who Preserved It Presents It to National Museum. Washington. Ono of the first cannon can-non balls fired In response to tho attack at-tack on Fort Sumtor, Charleston, April 12, 18C1, a 40-poundcr, has been presented pre-sented ns n relic to tho United States National museum by Dr. W. Huston Ford, now residing In Washington. At tho beginning of tho light Maj. Anderson devoted his attention to tho floating battery which wns moored In tho covo at Sullivan's islnnd near tho western extremity about n mllo and a quarter from tho fort. Threo of his shots struck tho battery nnd rebounded rebound-ed upon tho snnd bar, falling to peno-trnto peno-trnto moro than thrco Inches. Dr. Ford wns ono of tho surgeons of ttio hospltnl nt Mount Pleasant, near by, across tho lngoon back of Sullivan's Sulli-van's Islnnd, and as thoro was nothing noth-ing to do, bolng no wounded, In company com-pany with n collenguo tio visited tho Island next day nnd picked up ono of tho balls, foreseeing Its historical value.