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 Confederates fired the first shots at Fort Sumter.
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.
On Apr. 12,1861, 4.20 am the Confederate artillery fired the first shot on Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay.
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The first shots were fired at Fort Sumter, SC
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Confederates fired on Ft. Sumter in Charleston Harbor.
the first shots of the war was fired at Fort Sumter
The South fired the first shot in the American Civil War.
Fort Sumter in charleston.
The first shots of the US Civil War were fired.
The shots at fort Sumter caused the feud that started the civil war