The first shot of this engagement was fired by the soil chemist Edmund Ruffin, and the defenders here were later awarded the Gillmore Medal. Comer Woodward won the 1982 Pulitzer for editing an account of this incident which was recounted in the diary
The first shot of this engagement was fired by the soil chemist Edmund Ruffin, and the defenders here were later awarded the Gillmore Medal. Comer Woodward won the 1982 Pulitzer for editing an account of this incident which was recounted in the diary of Mary Boykin Chestnut who viewed it from The Battery. With commanders including the legendary founder of baseball, Abner Doubleday, Robert Anderson and PGT Beauregard, for 10 points, name this April 1861 engagement in South Carolina which saw the first shots of the Civil War.
The first shot of this engagement was fired by the soil chemist Edmund Ruffin, and the defenders here were later awarded the Gillmore Medal.
Battle of Fort {Sumter}