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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)
un on Sumter belongs there has been some discussion. Carleton, the war correspondent of the Boston Daily Journal, said it belonged to Edmund Ruffin, of Virginia. A romantic story has been told in public print that the little daughter of Governor Pickens, of South Carolina, while held in the arms of General Beauregard, pulled the lanyard of the first gun fired on the fort. The little girl of this story, who became one of the most brilliant daughters of South Carolina, was born in St. Petersburg while her father was United States minister to the court of Russia. The Czarina was her godmother, and gave her the name of Douschka, meaning my darling. Her mother was a great belle when Governor Pickens sought her hand in marriage, and was a great favorite at court. The man who fired the first gun on Sumter was Major Wade Hampton Gibbes, of Columbia, S. C. While residing in Columbia I frequently met Major Gibbes and heard his account of that memorable firing, and from what