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Representation of the gun which fired the opening shot of the American Civil War, across Charleston Harbor SC
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Representation of the gun which fired the opening shot of the American Civil War, across Charleston Harbor SC against Fort Sumter at dawn on April 12, 1861 (digital)
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Iconic representation of the opening shot of the American Civil War, showing a close-up detail of 1861 Charleston Harbor taken from Elliot & Ames’s contemporary chart, with a computer-graphic 10-inch seacoast mortar superimposed and spotlighted — the exact type of gun which was fired from Fort Johnson by Confederate Capt. George S. James at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, to signal the beginning of a general bombardment of the Federal garrison within Fort Sumter, thereby inaugurating four years of bloody conflict.

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