The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=anderson,j.,patten&n=1&type=person">Major Anderson</a> and <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=tgn,7013582&n=1&type=place">Fort Sumter</a>.

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Major Anderson and Fort Sumter.

--The President has expressed his official approval of Major Anderson's conduct at Fort Sumter, as follows :

‘"War Department."’

"Washington, April 22, 1861.

" Major Robert Anderson, late Commanding Officer at Fort Sumter :-- My dear sir :

I am directed by the President of the United States to communicate to you, and through you to the officers and men under your command at Forts Moultrie and Sumter, the approbation of the Government of your and their judicious and gallant conduct there, and to tender to you and them the thanks of the Government for the same.

"Simon Cameron, Sec'y of War." I am, very respectfully,

The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. may 6, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Major Anderson and Fort Sumter.

‘"War Department."’