[WhowasGustavusFox]

So, where would our thorough historian, Doris Kearnes Goodhead, go for a full description, accurate of course, about the starving soldiers at the fort? Someone she could quote with confidence.

[Non-Sequitur]

Perhaps she could use the words of Major Anderson himself? In a letter to Simon Cameron and dated April 3rd he said, "I must, therefore, most respectfully and urgently ask for instructions what I am to do as soon as my provisions are exhausted. Our bread will last four or five days."