[172] Ward H. Lamon, a former law partner of President Lincoln, who visited Charleston at this time and assumed to be a representative of the President.—[Editor.]

[173] War Records, Serial No. 1, p. 222.

[174] War Records, Serial No. 1, p. 230.

[175] Ibid., 228.

[176] Ibid., 284, 285.

[177] War Records, Serial No. 1, p. 285.

[178] Crawford, Fort Sumter, 377.

[179] War Records, Serial No. 1, p. 283.

[180] War Records, Serial No. 1, p. 241.

[181] Doubleday, Sumter and Moultrie, 98.