Copy of Major ANDERSON'S Dispatch, announcing the Surrender of Fort

Sumter, April 14, 1861.

	STEAMSHIP BALTIO, OFF SANDY HOOK,
April 18, 1861, 10.30 A. M. -- Via New York.

Honorable S. CAMERON, Secretary of War, Washington:

Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters
were entirely burned, the main gates destroyed by fire, the gorge-walls
seriously injured, the magazine surrounded by flames, and its door closed
from the effect of heat, four barrels and three cartridges of powder only
being available, and no provisions remaining but pork, I accepted terms
of evacuation offered by General Beauregard, being the same offered by
him on the 11th inst., prior to the commencement of hostilities, and
marched out of the fort, Sunday afternoon, the 14th inst., with colors flying
and drums beating, bringing away company and private property, and
saluting my flag with fifty guns.

ROBERT ANDERSON, Major First Artillery, commanding.

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