CHAPTER XV

FORT SUMTER, 1861 232

I. DRIFT TOWARD SOUTHERN NATIONALIZATION

II. STATUS OF THE FORTS

III. THE FORT SUMTER CRISIS

IV. THE FALL OF FORT SUMTER

By _French Ensor Chadwick_, Rear-Admiral U. S. N. (Retired). Author of “Causes of the Civil War.”

Synopsis of the principal events, chiefly military, between the Bombardment of Fort Sumter, 1861, and the Battle of the _Monitor_ and _Merrimac_, 1862.