April 7, 1861
- P. G. T. Beauregard orders all transports to Fort Sumter cut off. This ended the fort’s supply of fresh food
- Gen. Beauregard notified Major Anderson that intercourse between Fort Sumter and Charleston city would no longer be permitted.1
- Steam transport “Atlantic” sailed from New York with troops and supplies.1
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America
by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863