Carolina QuotesI do not pretend to go to sleep. How can I? If Anderson does not accept terms at four, the orders are, he shall be fired upon. I count four, St. Michael's bells chime out and I begin to hope. At half-past four the heavy booming of a cannon. I sprang out of bed, and on my knees prostrate I prayed as I never prayed before.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Carolinian
Source
Diary entry, Charleston, 12 April 1861, the bombardment of Fort Sumter; A Diary from Dixie (New York: D. Appleton, 1905)
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- A Diary from Dixie
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- 1861
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“I do not pretend to go to sleep. How can I? If Anderson does…” Mary Boykin Chesnut. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-D831FC4264. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/d831fc4264
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