{"id":11263,"date":"2021-03-19T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2021-03-07T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T21:56:03","slug":"operations-in-charleston-harbor-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/operations-in-charleston-harbor-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers in Florida \u2013 Confederate Correspondence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">WAR DEPARTMENT,<em> March <\/em>19<em>, <\/em>1861<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lieut. Gen. WINFIELD SCOTT:<\/p>\n<p>DEAR SIR: The President requires accurate information in regard to the command of Major Anderson in Fort Sumter, and wishes a competent person sent for that purpose. You will therefore direct some suitable person to proceed there immediately, and report the result of the information obtained by him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I am, sir, very respectfully,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong> SIMON CAMERON. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Secretary of War.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1398\" title=\"transparent\" src=\"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/transparent1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"6\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[Indorsements.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The within may do good and can do no harm. It commits no one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong> WINFIELD SCOTT. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"transparent\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/transparent1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"6\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The order of which this is a copy was presented to the President March 19, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>G. V. Fox, formerly of the Navy, was selected by General Scott as the messenger, and approved by the President.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong> S.C. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAR DEPARTMENT, March 19, 1861. Lieut. Gen. WINFIELD SCOTT: DEAR SIR: The President requires accurate information in regard to the command of Major Anderson in Fort Sumter, and wishes a competent person sent for that purpose. You will therefore direct some suitable person to proceed there immediately, and report the result of the information obtained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":98620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[32],"class_list":{"0":"post-11263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-of-the-rebellion-a-compilation-of-the-official-records-of-the-union-and-confederate-armies","8":"tag-operations-in-charleston-harbor"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/War-of-the-Rebellion-Official-Records-e1617334712502.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}