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The True Story of the Actual First Shot Fired in the Civil War

Literary Hub 23 September 2026 12h ago
The True Story of the Actual First Shot Fired in the Civil War
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It was the autumn of 1865—a quiet, bitter autumn after four hollowing years of war—when James Gilmore received a manuscript from a ghost. Well, not a ghost exactly. There’d been rumors, of course, about what had become of William Parker.
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