Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., page 157

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[157] run out, and his officers earnestly desired leave to fire. His peremptory instructions restrained him. He had not been “attacked.” Yet he was on the point of assuming the responsibility of giving the word to fire, because

Map of Charleston harbor in January, 1861.

the sovereignty of the nation was insulted by this dishonoring of its flag, when the vessel that bore it turned about and went to sea.

This assault upon the Star of the West was an open act of war. The conspirators of South Carolina had struck the first blow that was to inaugurate a destructive civil war — how specially destructive to themselves, and to the hundreds of thousands of the innocent people in the Slave-labor States

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