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the rank of brevet second lieutenant. He never joined the regiment, however, and resigned December 20, 1860, on the day of the secession of South Carolina, being at that time in Columbia. Reporting to Governor Pickens at Charleston, he was assigned to drilling artillery at Castle Pinckney and Fort Moultrie. Previous to the bombardment of Fort Sumter he was commissioned first lieutenant of the regiment of regular artillery, in charge of Fort Johnson, on Morris island, under command of Capt. John James. There Lieutenant Gibbes fired the signal gun for the attack on Fort Sumter, and immediately afterward fired a ten-inch shell from a mortar, which was the first shot fired at the fort, and, according to Federal Lieut. Richard K. Meade, fell inside the walls of Sumter. Not long after Lieutenant Gibbes resigned his rank in the State forces, and going to Richmond, was assigned to duty with Gen. H. A. Wise, with the rank of major and command of three batteries of artillery. He was on du