Excerpt from Fort Jefferson and Its Commander, 1861-62
Major Lewis G. Arnold, Second United States Artillery, had been in command of Fort Independence from 1857 to 1861, having been ordered to that post after nearly four years of hard service in the Everglades of Florida against the Seminoles.
On January 4, 1861, he received the following dispatch:
"Washington, January 4, 1861. Maj. L. G. Arnold, commanding Fort Independence, Boston Harbor. Hold your command in readiness to embark for the South, and conditionally engage steam transportation. Another telegram to-morrow. Winfield Scott, Headquarters of the Army."
On the next day he received the following telegram:
"Washington, January 5, 1861. Maj. L. G. Arnold, commanding Fort Independence, Boston Harbor.
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