Fort Moultrie abandoned

• Early this morning, Anderson's rear guard at Fort Moultrie sets fire to the gun carriages and sends supplies to Fort Sumter until the middle of the afternoon when ordered to Sumter by Anderson. South Carolina troops find Fort Moultrie vacated by Major Anderson and take it along with Castle Pinckney and a federal revenue cutter, the WILLIAM AIKEN/1860 

• [SECESSION CONVENTION] The Convention takes out the State Constitution and amends it in order to remove certain references to the United States of America/1860