[jeffersondem]

“During the fire, when Major ANDERSON'S flagstaff was shot away, a boat put off from Morris Island, carrying another American flag for him to fight under — a noteworthy instance of the honor and chivalry of South Carolina Seceders, and their admiration for a brave man.”

Difficult, if not impossible, to find fault with the gallant Southerners defending hearth and home.

[Bull Snipe]

Fort Pillow, Andersonville?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

“During the fire, when Major ANDERSON'S flagstaff was shot away, a boat put off from Morris Island, carrying another American flag for him to fight under — a noteworthy instance of the honor and chivalry of South Carolina Seceders, and their admiration for a brave man.”

The part about the replacement flag may be fake news from the NYT. The historical accounts I posted this week say the Sumter flag was shot away but they jury rigged it back up again. Louis Wigfall just had a white flag of truce on his sword when he was rowed to the island to consult with Anderson.

[BroJoeK]

"Difficult, if not impossible, to find fault with the gallant Southerners defending hearth and home."

Except, of course, the flag story is fake news, and those "gallant Southerners" weren't defending anything -- they were assaulting Union troops in a Union fort -- a fort which so far had posed no threat to anybody.