Battle of Fort Sumter - Siege and Political Maneuvers

Six days after the South Carolina government ratified an order of secession, U.S. Army Major Robert Anderson abandoned the indefensible Fort Moultrie and secretly relocated the 85 men under his command, companies E and H of the 1st U.S. Artillery[7], to Fort Sumter. Anderson had been appointed to command the Charleston garrison that Fall because of rising tensions. Anderson had been a protégé of Winfield Scott, the senior general in the U.S. Army at the time, and was thought more capable of han...

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