26 December 2015

Anderson’s Provacative Move

26 December 1860 

#KnowSouthernHistory 


On this date in 1860...

Federal Major Robert Anderson secretly moved his troops from Fort Moultrie on Sullivan’s Island, into Fort Sumter, aggravating the tense situation in Charleston, South Carolina.


Other Years:


  • 1811 - A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia killed the Governor  George William Smith and First National Bank of Virginia president Abraham B. Venable.
  • 1863 - Federal raiders looted and burned Port Lavaca, Texas.



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