Letter, 15 April 1861, from Oscar M. Lieber, Star of the West Battery, to his parents

Letter from Oscar M. Lieber to his parents (Francis and Matilda Oppenheimer Lieber), containing a firsthand account of the assault on and surrender of Fort Sumter: "the object [i.e. surrender] obtained after a most valiant defence and yet not a man killed or even badly hurt on either side." Also discusses Lieber's admiration for Maj. Robert Anderson, his contempt for the "cowardice of the U.S. fleet" and seeing Louis Wigfall and Gov. John L. Manning.