Origin and history of the American flag and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations (1917)
Preble, George Henry, 1816-1885, Asnis, Charles Edward · Philadelphia, N. L. Brown · leaf 44
in all constitutional measures to enforce the laws andpreserve the Union. The Charleston Mercury, of the same date, in an article headed Fort Sumter the Bastion of the Federal Union, concluded withthese words: Border Southern States will never join us until wehave indicat^ed our power to free… … steamer Star of the West. If the garrison of Fort Sumter was to be retained and sustained, itmust needs be reinforced and provisioned. A large steamship, the Star of the West, was thereforechartered, and sailed from NewYork on the 5th of Januar)^, with asupply of commissary stores andammunition,…
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