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The generally recognized "first shots" of the civil war were fired at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor in Charleston, South Carolina at about 4:40 AM on 12 April, 1861 when Edmund Ruffin of Virginia, touched off a gun in the ironclad battery at Cummings Point - signal shell to tell the rest of the Confederate forces to begin their bombardment of Fort Sumter.
Some claim that the first first shots were fired 3 months before the bombardment of Fort Sumter. On January 9th or 10th, 1861, Confederate batteries on Morris Island, manned by cadets from The Citadel, fired on the Union supply ship Star of the West. The Star of the West was attempting to resupply Union forces at Fort Sumter. Although the ship wasn't hit, Confederate forces were successful in driving the ship off.
But there were also shots fired by northern/union forces on January 8th, 1861, at Fort Barrancas (Pensacola, Florida) under the command of Lt. Adam J. Slemmer, firing at what were probably Alabama militia.
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US Civil War first shot?
The first shot in the civil war was fired by the south at the Union Fort Sumter in South Carolina
Who shot first in the American Civil War The North or the South?
The South fired the first shot in the American Civil War.
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Who fired the first shot for the north in the civil war?
The South
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The Last shot of the civil war was in Waynesville, NC
