 | Horatio King - United States - 1895 - 464 pages
...you may deem most proper to increase its power of resistance. You are also authorized to take similar steps whenever you have tangible evidence of a design to proceed to hostile acts." "When a copy of this order was laid before the President he gave directions for its... | |
 | Samuel Wylie Crawford - Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) - 1896 - 526 pages
...forts, but an attack on or an attempt to take possession of any one of them will be regarded as an act of hostility, and you may then put your command into...resistance. You are also authorized to take similar steps whenever you have tangible evidence of a design to proceed to a hostile act. (Signed.) " DC BUELL,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1896 - 812 pages
...on, or attempt to take possession of, either one of them, will be regarded as an act of hestility, and you may then put your command into either of them which you may decm most proper to inerease its power of resistance. You are also autherized to take similar defensive... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 724 pages
...forts, but an attack on or attempt to take possession of either one of them will be regarded as an act of hostility, and you may then put your command into...evidence of a design to proceed to a hostile act. before the 4th of March next. In any event, it will be my duty to preserve it, and this duty shall... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 722 pages
...forts, but an attack on or attempt to take possession of either one of them will be regarded as an act of hostility, and you may then put your command into...evidence of a design to proceed to a hostile act. before the 4th of March next. In any event, it will be my duty to preserve it, and this duty shall... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 670 pages
...of them will be regarded as an act of hostility, and you may then put your command into •-•ither of them which you may deem most proper to increase...evidence of a design to proceed to a hostile act. before the 4th of March next. In any event, it will be my duty to preserve it, and this duty shall... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - Presidents - 1897 - 712 pages
...forts, but an attack on or attempt to take possession of either one of them will be regarded as an act of hostility, and you may then put your command into...authorized to take similar defensive steps whenever yon have tangible evidence of a design to proceed to a hostile act. before the 4th of March next. In... | |
 | George Congdon Gorham - Cabinet officers - 1899 - 514 pages
...action, if convinced of the intention. The words were : — You are also authorized to take similar steps whenever you have tangible evidence of a design to proceed to a hostile act. Major Buell's report of this mission to Charleston was oral, but he delivered a copy of his " memorandum,"... | |
 | John William Burgess - History - 1901 - 366 pages
...hostility, and you may then put your command in either of them which you may deem most proper, in order to increase its power of resistance. You are also...evidence of a design to proceed to a hostile act." This order from Mr. Floyd was not brought to the notice of the President until the 21st day of the... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 588 pages
...forts, but an attack on or attempt to take possession of either one of them will be regarded as an act of hostility, and you may then put your command into...to increase its power of resistance. You are also authorthere. Buckingham, WILLIAM ALFRED, the war governor of Connecticut " ; born WILLIAM ALFRED tirrKIM,lMM.... | |
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... of them will be regarded as an act of hostility, and you may then put your command into either of them which you may deem most proper to increase its power of resistance. You are also authorized to take similar defensive steps whenever you have tangible... 
