Disunion- trouble's coming. Soon.

A humiliated Governor Pickens immediately ordered Pettigrew to capture Castle Pinckney and the other forts. Pettigrew called up three companies of Charleston’s militia. Excitement coursed through town as the men left their workplaces, donned their uniforms, grabbed their muskets, and mustered at the Citadel. By four o’clock they were mounting their rickety scaling ladders against Castle Pinckney’s implacable walls.