142                      SIXTY YEARS WITH
 

THE   FORT   SUMTER
EXPEDITION

^ M ^HEN it became evident
^ I ^ that the North had won
^M^r the victory and that the
defeat of the Confederacy
was at hand. President Lincoln de¬
cided to celebrate the event by re¬
placing the same old flag that had
waved over Fort Sumter before the
war had commenced, and had been
lowered on the 14th of April, 1861,
after a brave struggle by Major An¬
derson, only when compelled to do so
by the guns of General Beauregard.
By the President's order, the Secre¬
tary of War directed that on " April
14th, 1865, at twelve o'clock noon,