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Anderson's Advisor

I wrote below that I believe from the official messages and orders to Major Robert Anderson and from Major Robert Anderson that his attitude before he took Fort Sumter and after changed (from he needed orders to move to Fort Sumter to he didn't need orders to move to Fort Sumter) and that maybe some person was the cause.

This is who I believe to be that person...

Abner Doubleday

Lincoln's "Deep Throat".

I found a book that still can be purchased today called "The Diary of a Public Man: Unpublished Passages of the Secret History of the American Civil War" which did get published 1879 and caused quite a stir. It is the diary of a unknown person who was very close to the inside actions at Washington from 1860-61. There is a couple of passages in the book I found on the internet that says...

"* Stephen Douglas tells the author that Abner Doubleday is Ben Wade's creature and that Doubleday (and Wade) incited Major Anderson's evacuation of Fort Moultrie in favor of Sumter. [Remember that Doubleday writes Lincoln questioning Anderson's loyalty later during the Sumter crisis.]

* Douglas explains that "Wade and that gang are infuriated with Seward's coming into the Cabinet, and their object is to make it impossible for Lincoln to bring him in." The move from Moultrie to Sumter – and its ratcheting up of Charleston's outrage – is seen as sabotaging moderation, hence Seward's usefulness."

More later...got to go...I do have lots more to post.

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