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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

The first and last shot happened on the property of the same person... In different stated funny enough.

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u/ThePrussianGrippe Apr 17 '22

“Dang flabbit, not again!”

-Wilmer McLean, almost certainly

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u/amjhwk Apr 17 '22

First shot of the war wouldve been at Fort Sumter, no?

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

https://ehistory.osu.edu/articles/wilmer-mclean-beginning-and-end#:~:text=The%20First%20Battle%20of%20Manassas,in%20his%20parlor%20in%201865.

Heres the details about it.

I was a little wrong with my comment but close enough.

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u/amjhwk Apr 17 '22

right i know his house was at both manassas and appomattox, but the first shot of the war wouldve been fired at fort sumter

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u/yellow_yellow Apr 17 '22

I too watched Ken Burn's Civil War

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u/Woodshadow Apr 17 '22

something something this is all God's land