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The steamer Star of the West, bearing reinforcements to the small garrison cooped in Fort Sumter, was fired at in the harbor of Charleston, and compelled to put back discomfited.
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Sumner recounts an incident where a steamer attempting to reinforce Fort Sumter was fired upon, illustrating the conflict's intensity.
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