–General Peter G. T. Beauregard, lately a major in the United States Engineer Corps, was ordered by Jefferson Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy, to proceed to Charleston and take command of the forces there assembled, and to be assembled for the investment of Fort Sumter.–Herald, March 7. –In the Texas State Convention, a letter [...]
A Diary of American Events – March 5, 1861
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