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To: Neocon who wrote (56833)	7/16/1999 4:00:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) of 67261

I wasn't gonna mention this, but now I'm in the mood to be nit-picky: "In the early dawn of Jan. 9, 1861, the first shot of the War Between the States was fired from Morris Island by Citadel cadets, and the defense of the South became real." So reads a plaque at the Citadel in South Carolina. According to folks at the Citadel, after South Carolina seceded, federal troops in Charleston moved from a land fort to the safer redoubt at Fort Sumter. Charleston officials responded by posting militiamen to the beaches and islands ringing the harbor. Among them was a detachment of Citadel cadets. A few weeks later, a Northern steamer called Star of the West left Brooklyn with supplies for the Sumter garrison. A Southern sympathizer in New York telegraphed Charleston. When the Star of the West tried to enter Charleston harbor at dawn on January 9, 1861, it was a Citadel cadet who sounded the alarm. He and three classmates then fired across the ship's bow. Several other guns also opened fire. Three balls struck the ship's side and the captain prudently steamed back to New York. These kids beat Beauregard to the punch by three months. FWIW

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