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He was never unemployed. We find him at length in command of the fort which he had formerly contributed to defend and render famous. He was placed in charge of the garrison at Fort Moultrie. The value of this fort was estimated rather according to its celebrity, than its real usefulness.
"Peaches are luxuries in June," he says, quietly. This time it is at Sligo Moultrie that Miss Grace Plumer looks fixedly. "What kind of birds, Mr. Moultrie?" she says, at length. "Miss Grace, do you know the story of the old Prince of Este?" answers he, as he lays a bunch of grapes upon her plate. She pulls one carelessly and lets it drop again. He takes it and puts it in his mouth.
Passage of the Secession Ordinance. Governor Pickens's Proclamation. Judge Petigru's Visit to Fort Moultrie. Floyd's Treachery. Yancey's Lectures in the North. The Removal to Fort Sumter. On the 17th a bill was passed to arm the militia of North Carolina.
Persuaded that the British general could meditate no serious attempt on Charleston, and that the real object was to induce him to abandon the enterprise in which he was engaged, he detached a reinforcement of three hundred light troops to aid Moultrie, and crossing the Savannah himself, continued his march down the south side of that river towards the capital of Georgia.
Fort Moultrie gave, at an early period of the inexperienced and untried valor of our citizens, immortality to the American arms; and in the Northern States numerous bodies of them were enrolled, and fought side by side with the whites at the battles of the Revolution."
It was still the impression of the Carolinians that Fort Moultrie must be assailed as a preliminary step to the conquest of Charleston, and the post, as one of the highest honor and danger, was conferred upon Marion.* It was not known, indeed, at what moment the gallantry of the garrison might be put to the proof.
Two companies of artillery were ordered to Fort Moultrie on November 7th, and on the 12th General Macomb directed Major Julius Frederick Heileman that a building called "The Citadel," in Charleston, and which was the property of the State of South Carolina, should, with its State arms, be delivered up if demanded by the State authorities.
The idea of retreating seems never to have occurred to the brave commander. "I was never uneasy," wrote Moultrie in after years, "because I never thought the enemy could force me to retire." It was indeed fortunate that Colonel Moultrie was a stout-hearted man, for otherwise he might well have been discouraged.
* When the British under Prevost, were in possession of the neighboring islands, Moultrie writes, "we were apprehensive the enemy would attempt to surprise Fort Moultrie; we, therefore, always kept a strong garrison there under General Marion." But, any doubt as to the destination of the British fleet was soon removed.
Then the ugly black floating fortresses moved off in a line, each a third or a half a mile apart, against the masses of granite at Sumter and Moultrie, and the earthen batteries on three sides. "There are no clouds of canvas, no beautiful models of marine architecture, none of the stateliness and majesty which have marked hundreds of great naval engagements.
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