Created by Tom Horn on 24 Jul 2009, Last Update on 30 Jul 2009

Fort Sumter - 12 Apr 1861

At 4:30 AM Lieutenant Henry S. Farley commanding a battery of two mortars on James Island fired the first shot of the American Civil War.

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Tags : South Carolina,Land,Combat

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