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IN HONOR OF MAJOR ROBERT ANDERSON AND THE ONE-ONE-HUNDRED-TWENTY-EIGHT MEN OF HIS COMMAND WHO FOR THIRTY-FOUR HOURS APRIL TWELVE-THIRTEEN, EIGHTEEN-HUNDRED-SIXTY-ONE WITHSTOOD THE DESTRUCTIVE BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER AND WITHDREW WITH THE HONORS OF WAR. THE WAR OF SECESSION BEGAN HERE. ERECTED UNDER THE BEQUEST OF E.M.C.A. LAWTON A DAUGHTER OF MAJOR ANDRESON ACCEPTED BY ACT OF CONGRESS APPROVED MAY 11, 1928.