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REMINISCENCES

OF

FORTS SUMTER AND MOULTRIE

IN 1860–'61

By ABNER DOUBLEDAY
BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL U.S.A.

NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS
FRANKLIN SQUARE
1876

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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INTRODUCTION.

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Now that the prejudices and bitter partisan feeling of the past aresubsiding, it seems a fitting time to record the facts and incidentsconnected with the first conflict of the Rebellion. Of the elevenofficers who took part in the events herein narrated, but four nowsurvive. Before the hastening years shall have partially obliteratedmany circumstances from my memory, and while there is still anopportunity for conference and friendly criticism, I desire to make,from letters, memoranda, and documents in my possession, a statementwhich will embody my own recollections of the turbulent days of 1860 and1861.

I am aware that later and more absorbing events have caused the earlierstruggles of the war to recede in the distance; but those who were inactive life at that time will not soon forget the thrill of emotion andsympathy which followed the movements of Anderson's little band, when itbecame its duty to unfold the flag of the Union against a united Southin arms.

I know how difficult it is to write contemporaneous history, or even togive a bare detail of facts, without wounding the susceptibilities ofothers; but whenever I have felt called upon to give my own opinion, Ihave endeavored to do so in the spirit of Lincoln's immortalsentiment—"With malice toward none; with charity for all."

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CONTENTS.

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