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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), First shot of the war was fired in the air. (search)
possession. While picking up fragments of shell near the southeast angle of Sumter, on the day of the surrender, the writer was accosted by a soldier of Major Anderson's command, who said: you can gather as many pieces as you want near this gun, a 10-inch Columbian, which had been dismounted by Captain Thomas with the rifle gun. The soldier added: Faith, sor, the man that fired that rifle gun was a good Democrat. In the Providence (R. I.) Journal appeared a statement written by Rev. Isaac Crocker, chaplain of Slocum Post, No. 10, G. A. R., and dated June 23. It follows: To the Editor of the Sunday Journal. The following dispatch appeared in public print the other day: Columbia, S. C., June 13. Major W. H. Gibbes, who is said to have fired the first shot of the Civil war on Fort Sumter, died here yesterday. Major Gibbes was a gunner in Captain George James' company, to whom General Beauregard sent the order to open fire upon Major Anderson. This article was, no