Louisa Seymour was still on Sullivan’s Island and she asked the [South Carolina] authorities at Fort Moultrie if she could have permission to cross to Sumter but this was refused. The two sons of Moultrie’s sutler, however, offered to sneak her over, and on a dark night they did so.
Mary Doubleday, also turned down, had grown impatient and wanted to be with her husband. Rather than await permission, she merely strode up to one of the boats carrying laborers across, stepped in, sat down at the stern, and told them to start off. A nearby sentry eyeballed her, but made no attempt to interfere. A few minutes later she was standing on Sumter’s warf, and she and her husband retreated to his quarters.
Source:
Detzer, David. “The Wolf at the Door.” Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War. New York: Harcourt, 2002. 150. Print.
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