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Shepard Mallory was the last survivor among the significant characters in this book. He learned to read and write and became a prominent figure in Hampton’s black community. The former contraband apparently mended fences with his former master, who attended one of his weddings. (Mallory would marry at least four times; his last two wives were approximately forty and thirty years younger, respectively, than he was.) In the early twentieth century he was working as a carpenter and school janitor and living in the house at 260 Lincoln Street that he owned, free and clear, for the last four decades of his life. Shepard Mallory last appears in the census records in 1920, aged about eighty and still working, self-employed.17
The American Declaration of Independence Illustrated, 1861 (photo credit bm.1)
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Prologue: A Banner at Daybreak
1. Abner Doubleday, Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie (New York, 1876), pp. 63–7; Samuel W. Crawford, The History of the Fall of Fort Sumter, and the Genesis of the Civil War (New York, 1887), pp. 104–112; J. G. Foster to J. H. B. Latrobe, Jan. 10, 1861, in Frank F. White, Jr., ed., “The Evacuation of Fort Moultrie in 1860,” The South Carolina Historical Magazine, vol. 53, no. 1 (Jan. 1952), pp. 1–5; John Thompson to “Dear Father,” Feb. 14, 1861, in “A Union Soldier at Fort Sumter, 1860–1861,” The South Carolina Historical Magazine, vol. 67, no. 2 (Apr. 1966), pp. 99–104; J. G. Foster to R. E. De Russy, Dec. 27, 1860, in Official Records [of the War of the Rebellion], series I (hereafter OR I), vol. 1, pp. 108–9; James P. Jones, ed., “Charleston Harbor, 1860–1861: A Memoir from the Union Garrison,” The South Carolina Historical Magazine, vol. 62, no. 3 (July 1961), pp. 148–50; Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Jan. 5 and Jan. 19, 1861. There are a few discrepancies among firsthand accounts of the departure from Fort Moultrie. Original texts can be found on the website for this book, www.1861book.com.
2. Abner Doubleday, “From Moultrie to Sumter,” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (New York, 1887), vol. 1, p. 41; Doubleday, Reminiscences, chap. 1.
3. Dictionary of American Biography (hereafter DAB) (New York, 1944), vol. 1, 274; George W. Cullum, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (Boston, 1891), vol. 1, pp. 347–52.
4. Fitz John Porter to Cooper, Nov. 11, 1860, OR I, vol. 1, p. 71.
5. Terry W. Lipscomb, South Carolina Revolutionary War Battles: The Carolina Low Country, April 1775–June 1776, and the Battle of Fort Moultrie (Columbia, S.C., 1994); Edwin C. Bearss, The Battle of Sullivan’s Island and the Capture of Fort Moultrie: A Documented Narrative and Troop Movement Maps, Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina (Washington, D.C., National Park Service, 1968).
6. Doubleday, “From Moultrie to Sumter,” pp. 40–41.
7. James Chester, “Inside Sumter in ’61,” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. 1, pp. 50–51.
8. David Detzer, Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War (New York, 2001), p. 53.
9. Charles H. Lesser, Relic of the Lost Cause: The Story of South Carolina’s Ordinance of Secession, 2nd ed. (Columbia, S.C., 1996), pp. 2–3.
10. W. A. Swanberg, First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter (New York, 1957), p. 25.
11. Roy Meredith, Storm over Sumter: The Opening Engagement of the Civil War (New York, 1957), p. 37.
12. Anderson to Cooper, Dec. 1, 1860, OR I, vol. 1, p. 81; Detzer, Allegiance, p. 63.
13. Anderson to Cooper, Nov. 28, 1860, OR I, vol. 1, pp. 78–79.
14. Cooper to Anderson, Dec. 14, 1860, OR I, vol. 1, pp. 92–93.
15. Floyd to Anderson, Dec. 19, 1860, OR I, vol. 1, p. 98.
16. Doubleday, Reminiscences, ch. 3; Doubleday, “From Moultrie to Sumter,” p. 41; Crawford, History, p. 66.
17. Doubleday, “From Moultrie to Sumter,” p. 43.
18. Detzer, Allegiance, pp. 71–72.
19. Doubleday, “From Moultrie to Sumter,” p. 41.
20. Detzer, Allegiance, pp. 23–24.
21. DAB, I, p. 274; Cullum, Biographical Register,