Posted on 02/04/2021 6:08:58 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Sunday, Feb. 3.
I have information which, though not official, leaves very little doubt on my mind that Fort Sumter has actually been reinforced, in spite of the vigilance of the Charleston volunteers. I think it will turn out that the steamer Brooklyn took some three hundred soldiers and ten or twelve officers to the entrance of Charleston harbor, and that in the night time they rowed in small boats, with muffled oars, past the batteries on Morris Island and Fort Moultrie, and are now inside of Fort Sumter.
You may remember that the people of Charleston were greatly excited a fortnight since, by the report that a war steamer, supposed to be the Brooklyn, was lying off the harbor; but as nothing was heard of her, it was supposed she had proceeded to Fort Pickens. There was a story also of small boats having been seen in the neighborhood of Fort Sumter, and it was sagaciously supposed they were sent out to examine the batteries on Morris Island.
There is a current rumor about town, to-night, that an attack has been made on Fort Sumter. No dispatches have been received for three days past by the War Department from Maj. ANDERSON, and this, just after the report which I sent you a few evenings since of an intention to attack the fort on the part of the State troops, seems to give strong grounds for the fears entertained here to night. If true, this move is made to prevent the possibility of the Convention, which meets to-morrow, or Congress taking any further steps to towards the adjustment of the present difficulties.
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