Across Five Aprils

-Where were the first shots fired that led into the Civil War and who fired them?

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Just before sunrise on April 12, 1861, a shell exploded above Fort Sumter. It was the first shot fired in the American Civil War. I'm not sure who fired the first shot. I think it was Edmund Ruffin.