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The first gun shot taken in the Civil War was by Confederate cannons while they bombed Fort Sumter in April of 1861. For legal reasons, the US Supreme Court ruled that the conflict between the US and the rebelling Southern states began in July of 1861. Certainly the first cannon shots that brought about the US Civil War were at Fort Sumter.

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