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National Geographic Society (U.S.), McCandless, Byron, 1881-, Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1875-1966 · Washington, National Geographic Society · leaf 378
alAnderson, after a brief and touching address, hoisted it to the peakof the flagstaff, amid loud huzzas, which were followed bysinging the Star Spangled Banner.1 Then six guns on the fortopened their loud voices, and were responded to by all the gunsfrom all the batteries around which took part in… … Repossession of Fort Sumter. nounced an eloquent address. A benediction closed the ceremo-nies, and thus it was that Fort Sumter was formally repossessedby the government. Mr. Lossing states as a curious fact, derived from an old re-sident of Charleston, that not one of the Palmetto Guards, ofwhich…
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