South Carolina
The first shots were fired in Lexington, Massachusetts.
History generally considers the first shots of the Civil War to be fired on April 12, 1861, at 4:30 a.m., at the Union Garrison at Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, Charleston, S.C.
The first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. First pitched battle was Bull Run(Manassas), Virginia.
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They were fired by the South Carolina state militia from Charleston Harbor against Fort Sumter, a federal fort in just offshore. The fort surrendered.
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The first state to leave the Union was South Carolina. Six more followed before the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter. Lincoln responded by calling for volunteer-troops, and four more states seceded.
South Carolina.
Charleston, South Carolina. The instrument of secession was signed here, not in the state capital of Columbia. Aso, of course, the first shots of the war were fired across Charleston harbour.
Massachusetts in the town of Lexington on April 19, 1775
Because Confederate forces first opened fire at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina on 12 April 1861, starting the Civil War. SC was looked upon as the bed of the War.