ON THIS DAY IN 1861, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The Fort Sumter garrison, one hundred and twenty strong, under command of Captain Doubleday, left Fort Hamilton, on board the tugboat Cataline, for Jersey City, yesterday en route by rail for Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. They took their departure from Jersey City about half-past eleven o’clock. Immediately […]
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