January 22, 1861
The confrontation between Southern forces and the small group of U.S. soldiers and sailors holding Fort Pickens continued to grow late in the month of January. Cities both North and South watched and waited, citizens fearing that conflict could erupt at any minute.
In the North, people were able to follow the developments through dispatches telegraphed from Pensacola and New Orleans and published in newspapers across the Union. The following examples are from the Philadelphia Inquirer:
|Pensacola Bay from Fort Barrancas|