"The Storm May Break At Any Moment" In late December 1860 speculation ran rampant as to what the newly self-declared independent Republic of South Carolina might do concerning the sixty Federal troops still garrisoned in ...

On April 10, 1861, Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard, commander of all Confederate forces at Charleston, South Carolina, received new orders from Secretary of War LeRoy Pope Walker in the Confederate capital of Montgomery, Alabama. A ...