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April 1861

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Wednesday 24 1500 Massachusetts Troops not permitted to land at Annapolis were taken on board US School Ship Constitution and are now lying off that town. 2 US Vessels with troops went up the Bay Sunday &

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5 transports ^ supposed up the Potomac Monday. It is rumored there are 5000 Va Troops at Harpers Ferry & 5000 near Alexandria, 4000 south Carolinans[se?] coming & when they concentrate, an attack will be immediately made on Washington. Col Robert E Lee, late of US army has been appointed Major Genl of Va forces and commander in chief. The Va convention is in [Secret Session][underlined]

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& no one knows what it has ^ or is doing.^ It is made public that [It has passed an ordinance of Secession][underlined] These are not all authentic but a few days will show. Large reinforcements have been certainly thrown into Fs Monroe probably for the purpose of intimidating Va but that they cant

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do. I live less than 30 Miles of it and ^ entirely exposed, and I am no scared, nor are any of my neighbors, or any one I have heard of. Mr Lincoln may yet realize that [“Somebody will be Hurt’][underlined] before this thing is over.