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I am so sorry for them that I don't know what to do." Next day Miss Pickens walked down alone to the Relief Station. "My mother and I have talked it over," she said briefly, "and we have decided. Annie must go." "I am glad," said Mrs. Randolph. "Glad for her, but very sorry for you." "It is like cutting out my heart," said the poor Aunt. "But what can we do?
Owing to misconception or otherwise, an order to reinforce Fort Pickens was not carried out, and an expedition to relieve Fort Sumter was then ordered to be dispatched.
This could not be allowed. Starvation was not yet upon the garrison; and ere it would be reached, Fort Pickens might be reinforced. This last would be a clear indication of policy, and would better enable the country to accept the evacuation of Fort Sumter as a Military necessity."
Therefore, having been joined by some militia under Colonel Pickens, he halted at a place called the Cowpens, about three miles from the line of separation between North and South Carolina. Before daylight on the morning of the 17th of January , he was informed of the near approach of Tarleton, and instantly prepared to receive him.
Pickens and myself that provisions will be sent to Fort Sumter peaceably, or otherwise by force."
This was on the order of General Bragg, who discovered how he had been outwitted, and the prompt reinforcement prevented the capture of Fort Pickens, for which Bragg had made every preparation. The post was held by the Unionists throughout the war and was the only one south of Mason and Dixon's line so held.
When the Secretary became convinced that he could not alter the President's determination, he conformed to circumstances, immediately changed his tactics, and after notifying the authorities at Charleston that the garrison in Sumter was to be supplied, he took prompt but secret measures to defeat the expedition by detaching the flagship, and sending her, with the supplies and reinforcements that had been prepared and intended for Sumter, to Fort Pickens.
Pickens had been more careful in his confidences. One night he told the young lieutenant the story of a raid on an emigrant camp on the Cottonwood river; how the dead man had been left no shroud; the wounded one no blanket; how the mules were sold and the proceeds gambled for. But Lieut. “Hart’s” mask revealed nothing. Three days later Pickens and two of his friends were found dead on Bull Creek.
He gives the number of Cherokee warriors at 2,300. Hawkins, Pickens, Martin, and McIntosh, in their letter, give them 800 warriors: most other estimates make the number smaller. Almost all the early writers make them more numerous. Adair gives them 4,500 warriors, Hawkins 6,000.
It was in command of a doubting major of ordnance; the corps of officers of Jefferson Barracks hard by was mottled with secession. Trade was still. The Mississippi below was practically closed. In all the South, Pickens and Sumter alone stood stanch to the flag. A general, wearing the uniform of the army of the United States, surrendered the whole state of Texas. The St.
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