Robert Anderson to G. T. Beauregard, Charleston, S. O, March 26, 1861

General G. T. BEAUREGARD, Charleston, S. O.:

My DrEAR GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, and hasten to say that I needed no denial

from you of. the expression attributed to you. The moment I heard —

that you had said that I should not leave this fort without surrendering I remarked that it was not true, and that I knew you had not said so. I am much obliged to his excellency the governor and yourself for the assurances you give me, but you must pardon me for saying that I feel deeply hurt at the intimation in your letter about the conditions whieh will be exacted of me, and I must state most distinctly that if I can only be permitted to leave on the pledge you mention I shall never, so help me God, leave this fort alive.

Hoping that you do not mean what your words express, and in that

Caar. 1] ‘ CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.—UNION.

case cordially uniting with you in the wish that we may have the pleasure of meeting under more favorable circumstances, J remain, dear general,

yours truly,