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Who fired first shot for south?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

It was artillery fire at the US Army garrison on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbour, ordered by the local Confederate commander P.G.T. Beauregard on the instructions of the Confederate president Jefferson Davis.

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