CHAPTER VI.. The Storm Bursts.

THE STORM BURSTS. Robert E. Lee Joins the Confederacy--Sumter Fired upon--The Uprising of the Loyal North--The First Troops to Arrive--Nick Biddle, the First Man Wounded--Arrival of the Massachusetts Sixth--The Censorship of the Press--General Butler Re-opens Communication with the North --The Massachusetts Eighth--Ellsworth's Fire Zouaves--Alexandria Occupied--A Confederate Flag Captured--Colonel Ellsworth Killed by its Owner and Promptly Avenged.