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Brigadier General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard commanded the Southern forces at Fort Sumter in April of 1861. He was born in Louisiana near New Orleans May 28, 1818.

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Fired the first shots in the Civil War.?

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Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired and who fired in them?

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The Confederate states seceded from the Union and fired the first shots.


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The Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter signed the outbreak of the American Civil War-.


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