(A) ** Ft. Sumter
(B) Gettysburg
(C) Antietam
(D) Vicksburg
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -A signal mortar shell was fired from Fort Johnson over Fort Sumter. Firing from surrounding batteries soon followed, starting the battle. A Virginia secessionist, Edmund Ruffin, claimed to have fired the “first shot” of the battle and the Civil War.
Concept note-2: -At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered.
Concept note-3: -We have been told that the first shot fired in the “Civil War” was fired by the Confederacy at Fort Sumter in response to the Lincoln government’s attempt to rearm and re-supply that federal installation.
Concept note-4: -The Battles of Lexington and Concord.