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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Who fired the first gun at Sumter? (search)
psack on his back and musket on his shoulder tendered his services to South Carolina to fight against the aggression upon her rights. It was his hand that pointed and fired the first gun at Fort Sumter. The world has pointed to the conduct of Cincinnatus, who, when his country was invaded by a hostile foe, left his plow in the furrow to take command of her forces, and after he had driven out the invader and restored his country to peace and prosperity, resigned his position and returned to his plow. By this one act he embalmed his memory in the breasts of his countrymen and of all patriots throughout the world. The conduct of Cincinnatus was not more patriotic than that of Edmund Ruffin, and side by side in the niche of fame will their names be recorded by every patriotic heart. From the New York Post: Shot and Hemp.—A Charleston dispatch states that the first shot from Stevens's battery was fired by the venerable Edmund Ruffin, of Virginia. A piece of the first hemp that i