Quotes About Sumter

...we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment.

I walked back across the parade ground beneath the shadows of the massive oak trees on the southern fringe of the parade ground and the two howitzer cannons, Barnwell and Freeman, named for the two Institute cadets who fired the first shots on Fort Sumter to begin the Civil War.

Everett's quick conversion to the war cause after Sumter was just as typical of the North as had been his confusion during the secession winter.