...an M. Ruffin. Old Church, Va., March 30, 1896. The extract referred to above follows: I wish to correct an error which has almost passed into an historical fact. It is this: That Edmund Ruffin , of Virginia, did not fire the first gun at Fort Sumter, but that Captain George S. James, of South Carolina, afterward killed when a lieutenant-colonel at Boonesboro, Md., did fire it. The writ...