[TexConfederate1861]

Someone sent me a link a few days ago, that has the USS
Harriet Lane firing the first shot.

[4CJ]

The Harriet Lane DID fire the first shot of the war.

[Non-Sequitur]

Someone sent me a link a few days ago, that has the USS Harriet Lane firing the first shot.

Depends on how you define 'first shot'. Confederate batteries fired on the Rhoda Shannon a week or two before the Harriet Lane fired on the Nashville. Why wouldn't that be the first shot? Why wouldn't southern batteries firing on the Star of the West in Charleston on January 10, or firing on the O. A. Tyler outside of Vicksburg on January 11? What made the Harriet Lane the first shot?