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Palmetto Past & Present: Who Really Fired The First Shots Of The Civil War?

“South Carolinians were itching for a fight …”

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The history books tell us the Civil War started in Charleston, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. And
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Nanker Phelge January 8, 2024 at 5:13 pm

Wrong.

The “Civil War” was nothing more than some peaceful tourists engaging in political discourse. There were plenty of hugs and kisses being exchanged between the sides. Everybody knows this.

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The Colonel Top fan January 8, 2024 at 5:48 pm

You left out the part about the lads from the boy’s school on the Ashley’s gunnery. They allegedly managed to strike the Star of the West three times but caused zero damage (probably because they didn’t actually hit her but a single time despite the oft repeated tale from the “historians” at ElCid).

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Losers gonna lose January 9, 2024 at 11:31 am

So South Carolinians have always been violent bumpkins who love losing?

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