[HandyDandy]

“Star of the West was an American civilian steamship that was launched in 1852 and scuttled by Confederate forces in 1863. In January 1861, the ship was hired by the government of the United States to transport military supplies and reinforcements to the U.S. military garrison of Fort Sumter. Cadets from The Citadel fired upon the ship...”

Seems kinda odd that you would snip off the salient point from your wiki quote. You know, where your copy and paste clipped off, “effectively the first shots fired in the American Civil War.[1][2]”

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“Seems kinda odd that you would snip off the salient point from your wiki quote.”

Seems kinda odd that a statement qualified with “effectively” would be seen as the salient point.

Where are the goal posts? First it was Sumpter that saw the first shots, now it’s some military school boys popping away at a ship—from the shore, one supposes.

I wonder if any of their bullets actually struck the ship.