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Battle of Fort Sumter
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  • More eagles were flying in formation toward Fort Sumter—at least a dozen.†   (source)
  • This is the map that I found at Fort Sumter.†   (source)
  • Jason and Frank were forced to overshoot the Argo II and fly toward Fort Sumter.†   (source)
  • Why did so many people want to see Fort Sumter on a sweltering summer day?†   (source)
  • And Percy—you and I need to get this ship to Fort Sumter.†   (source)
  • The chariot shot toward Fort Sumter, slamming into Jason.†   (source)
  • Littmus W. Block was just a boy when the firing on Fort Sumter occurred," Miss Franny Block said as she started in on her story.†   (source)
  • Fort Sumter?†   (source)
  • No offense to Frank, but after the fiasco at Fort Sumter, Leo had become a conscientious objector to riding giant eagles.†   (source)
  • He had the proud, melancholy face one associated with Confederate veterans and looked old enough to have fired on Fort Sumter.†   (source)
  • Fort Sumter was behind us now, and its history changed for me as I saw it through the thickets of Annie Kate's blond hair, as I smelled it through the perfume behind her ears and on her neck.†   (source)
  • I would have stopped the freighter near the buoy to Fort Sumter, turned it about, and presented its constant immutable approach to the city as a gift to Annie Kate, a ship that would never leave her.†   (source)
  • When Annie Kate began to show through the raincoat, Mrs. Gervais moved her out to the family beach house on Sullivan's Island, a gray Victorian structure on the south end of the island, directly across from Fort Sumter, with an uncommonly beautiful view of the harbor and the city.†   (source)
  • I walked back across the parade ground beneath the shadows of the massive oak trees on the southern fringe of the parade ground and the two howitzer cannons, Barnwell and Freeman, named for the two Institute cadets who fired the first shots on Fort Sumter to begin the Civil War.†   (source)
  • Ever since the school had been founded in 1842, after a slave insurrection, the Corps had marched on Fridays in Charleston, except on the Friday following that celebrated moment when cadets from the Institute had opened fire on the Star of the East, a Northern supply ship trying to deliver supplies to the beleaguered garrison at Fort Sumter.†   (source)
  • Piper and Annabeth sent a dream vision to Camp Half-Blood, warning Chiron of what had happened with the Romans at Fort Sumter.†   (source)
  • Annabeth remembered the spiders at Fort Sumter, and the dream Percy had described—the hissing voice in the dark.†   (source)
  • Coach Hedge shot them out of the sky; Frank dropped him (that was no accident); and they crash-landed in Fort Sumter.†   (source)
  • She spent most of her time in her cabin, studying the bronze map she'd retrieved from Fort Sumter, or looking up information on Daedalus's laptop.†   (source)
  • He was worried about her after her encounter with the spiders at Fort Sumter, and he didn't know how to help her, especially if she shut him out.†   (source)
  • Except Festus tells me the port aerial stabilizer got pulverized when the ship raked against the dock at Fort Sumter.†   (source)
  • He remembered how shaken Annabeth had looked when she'd come back from Fort Sumter after her encounter with the spiders.†   (source)
  • By the time the Argo II reached top speed, Fort Sumter was only a blot in the distance, and they were racing across the waves toward the ancient lands.†   (source)
  • Then twice at Fort Sumter.†   (source)
  • The few times Percy and Jason had worked together—summoning the storm at Fort Sumter, helping the Argo II escape the Pillars of Hercules, even filling the nymphaeum—Percy had felt more confident, better able to figure out problems, as if he'd been a Cyclops his whole life and suddenly woke up with two eyes.†   (source)
  • I have known a great many Confederate flag nuts in my life, rabid dreamers who dwell on the glory of Fort Sumter and Bull Run and repress the reality of Appomattox.†   (source)
  • Maybe she'll have some news about Fort Sumter that we haven't heard.†   (source)
  • And the Charlestonians took so much upon themselves about Fort Sumter!†   (source)
  • How could Pa talk on and on about Fort Sumter and the Yankees when he knew her heart was breaking?†   (source)
  • Pray for a peaceable settlement with the Yankees after we've fired on the rascals at Fort Sumter?†   (source)
  • As the boat churned past the round brick cylinder of Fort Sumter, Malvin Bowden said: "They had the most men.†   (source)
  • Particularly urgent was the problem of Fort Sumter, so placed in the mouth of Charleston harbor that it could hardly be reinforced without subjecting Union ships to the fire of Confederate batteries.†   (source)
  • Nicolay, in his Outbreak of Rebellion, asserted his belief that it was Lincoln's carefully matured purpose to force rebellion to put itself flagrantly and fatally in the wrong by attacking Fort Sumter.†   (source)
  • Governor Pickens of South Carolina was notified that an attempt would be made to supply Fort Sumter "with provisions only," and not with arms, and was advised by Lincoln that "if such an attempt be not resisted, no effort to throw in men, arms, or ammunition will be made without further notice, or [sic] in case of an attack upon the fort."†   (source)
  • To order Anderson to withdraw Fort Sumter's garrison at the demand of the Confederates was a tremendous concession, which Lincoln actually considered but rejected; it would be an implicit acknowledgment of the legality of secession, and the Union would, by his own recognition, be at an end; the moral stock of the Confederacy would go soaring.†   (source)
  • But now Gerald had bawled the words "Fort Sumter," and every man present forgot his host's admonition.†   (source)
  • In a letter to Gustavus Vasa Fox, the extraordinary naval officer who had led the relief attempt, Lincoln concluded, "You and I both anticipated that the cause of the country would be advanced by making the attempt to provision Fort Sumter, even if it should fail; and it is no small conclusion now to feel that our anticipation is justified by the result."†   (source)
  • The Yankees may be scared of us, but after the way General Beauregard shelled them out of Fort Sumter day before yesterday, they'll have to fight or stand branded as cowards before the whole world.†   (source)
  • Pa talks war morning, noon and night, and all the gentlemen who come to see him shout about Fort Sumter and States' Rights and Abe Lincoln till I get so bored I could scream!†   (source)
  • As for instance, right after Fort Sumter fell and before the blockade was established, I bought up several thousand bales of cotton at dirt-cheap prices and ran them to England.†   (source)
  • Now come, daughter, cheer up, and I'll take you to Charleston next week to visit your Aunt Eulalie and, what with all the hullabaloo they are having over there about Fort Sumter, you'll be forgetting about Ashley in a week.†   (source)
  • He had forgotten completely about his conversation with her that afternoon and was carrying on a monologue about the latest news from Fort Sumter, which he punctuated by hammering his fist on the table and waving his arms in the air.†   (source)
  • It was as though when writing Melanie, Ashley tried to ignore the war altogether, and sought to draw about the two of them a magic circle of timelessness, shutting out everything that had happened since Fort Sumter was the news of the day.†   (source)
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