Programme of the order of exercies at the re-raising of the United States flag on Fort Sumter; 1865 Apr. 14, Charleston, S.C.

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Programme of the order of exercies at the re-raising of the United States flag on Fort Sumter; 1865 Apr. 14, Charleston, S.C.

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Printed manuscript, 14 April 1865, listing schedule of events for the re-installation of the same United States Flag which had flown over Fort Sumter, Charleston, S.C., at the beginning of the Civil War, to be raised by Brevet Major Robert Anderson ; other scheduled events were to include a reading of Major Anderson's dispatch to the government announcing the fall of the the fort by Brevet Brigadier general E.D. Townsend; also prayers, addresses and reading of various Psalms by Army Chaplains Matthias Harris, R.S. Storrs, Jr. and Henry Ward Beecher.

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