But the negotiations were soon completed.

Sumter, a mass of ruins, was given up, and the Star and Bars, taking the place of the Stars and Stripes, gaily snapped defiance to the whole North.

"It begins to look well there," said Beauregard, gazing proudly at the new flag.
All the amenities were preserved between the captured garrison and their captors.

Anderson was sent to the Baltic, which still hovered outside, and the Union vessels disappeared on their way back to the North.
Peace, but now the peace of triumph, settled again over Charleston, and throughout the South went the joyous tidings that Sumter had been taken.

The great state of Virginia, Mother of Presidents, went out of the Union at last, and North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas followed her, but Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri still hung in the balance.
Lincoln had called for volunteers to put down a rebellion, but Harry heard everywhere in Charleston that the Confederacy was now secure.
The Southerners were rising by the thousands to defend it.